Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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Piet Pieterszoon Hein was a Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War. Hein was the first and the last to capture a large part of a Spanish treasure fleet which t
1629 portrait
The arrival of Piet Hein in Holland, 1629
The Battle in the Bay of Matanzas was a naval battle in Cuba during the Eighty Years' War in which a Dutch squadron was able to defeat and capture a Spanish treasure fleet.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
…Delfshaven, County of Holland Died 18 June 1629 (aged 51) Buried Oude Kerk, Delft, the Netherlands Allegiance Dutch Republic Conflicts Eighty Years' War Battle in the Bay of Matanzas Dutch-Portuguese War Capture of Salvador Filips van Zuylen's campaign against Luanda Battle in the Bay of San Salvador Dutch conquest of the Banda…
Piet Hein capturing the Spanish silver fleet during the battle. The Story of New Netherland (1909).