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    Joan Maetsuycker (14 October 1606 – 24 January 1678) was the Governor of Zeylan during the Dutch period in Ceylon, and Governor-General of the Dutch East...
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    eventually scrapped in 1974. She was named after Dutch colonial governor Joan Maetsuycker (1606–1678). She was laid down and launched in 1936 and commissioned...
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    Joan Maetsuycker, the governor-general in Batavia, who would later give him dispensation from his ordinary duties to complete this study. Maetsuycker...
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  • Simon Cos (d. 1664), governor of Amboina 1662–1664, and in 1664 to Joan Maetsuycker (1606–1678), general governor of Batavia in 1653–1678. She is described...
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    the Indies, consisting of Antonie van Diemen, Cornelis van der Lijn, Joan Maetsuycker, Justus Schouten, Salomon Sweers, Cornelis Witsen, and Pieter Boreel...
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    plundered and destroyed. In February 1649, the Dutch governor of Ceylon, Joan Maetsuycker, led a force of 436 Europeans in an assault on the Portuguese. In the...
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    10 Cornelis van der Lijn 1645 1650 11 Carel Reyniersz 1650 1653 12 Joan Maetsuycker 1653 1678 13 Rijckloff van Goens 1678 1681 14 Cornelis Speelman 1681...
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    Indies Company. In the 1650s, Governors-General Carel Reyniersz and Joan Maetsuycker began promoting interracial marriage between Dutchmen and indigenous...
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    in County Tipperary. February 26 – Jacob van Kittensteyn succeeds Joan Maetsuycker as the Dutch Governor of Zeylan (now the nation of Sri Lanka). March...
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    prince-bishop of Münster and military leader (d. 1678) October 14 – Joan Maetsuycker, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1653 to 1678 (d. 1678)...
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