Gerard Pietersz Hulft (12 December 1621 in Amsterdam – 10 April 1656 in Colombo), was a Dutch general. In 1655 he was sent with a fleet to Ceylon and...

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orientalist Philippus Baldaeus visited the palace with General Gerard Pietersz Hulft in 1656. The royal residence was known as "Maha Wasala" in Sinhalese...

and broke the latter's monopoly of the cinnamon trade. In 1658, Gerard Pietersz Hulft laid siege to Colombo, which was captured with the help of King...

Henriques Jacques l'Hermite Dooitze Eelkes Hinxt Frederick de Houtman Gerard Pietersz Hulft Abraham van der Hulst Pieter Ita Willem Janszoon Cornelis Jol Hendrik...

Krzysztof Arciszewski, Polish-Lithuanian noble (b. 1592) April 10 – Gerard Pietersz Hulft, Dutch general (b. 1621) April 24 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician...

De Bitter was flagcaptain on the Ter Goes of Director-General Gerard Pietersz Hulft, who commanded a fleet attacking the Portuguese colony of Ceylon...

power. Accordingly, in August 1655 a large Dutch fleet commanded by Gerard Pietersz. Hulft arrived and the war entered its final phase with the siege by land...

and general in the army of Brandenburg (d. 1677) December 12 – Gerard Pietersz Hulft, Dutch general (d. 1656) December 23 Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of...

Bicker Portrait of Adriaen Corver and his Wife (1666) Portrait of Gerard Pietersz Hulft (1677) A Young Girl at the Table The Painter's Studio (1679) (now...