position of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in both the intercontinental route and in intra-Asian trades. The VOC secured its position in Asia by defeating...

lead and silver deposits in 1890. Geelvink Channel was named after a ship, but the ship was named after Joan Geelvinck Vansittart Bay on the coast of Western...

22 The Spanish army under Spinola refused to give up the key fortress of Wesel. Hayden p.22 Jan Glete, La guerra sul mare 1500–1650, Bologna, Il Mulino...

and approximately 30,000 were left homeless. After crossing the Rhine at Wesel and Rees, Canadian, British and Polish forces entered the Netherlands from...

of 's-Hertogenbosch. When Dutch troops surprised the Spanish fortress of Wesel, which acted as the principal Spanish supply base, this forced the invaders...

was an early critic of the Dutch colonial system as implemented under the VOC. His ideas about reforms in the Dutch East Indies were to a large extent...

almost completely destroyed. May 13 – The Eendracht, a VOC ship and the second recorded European ship to make landfall on Australian soil, is wrecked off...