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 Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands, also referred to as the Banda genocide, was a process of military conquest from 1609 to 1621 by the Dutch East India Company of the Banda Islands. The Dutch, h
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
…a peace was concluded in favour of the VOC: the Bandanese recognized Dutch authority and a monopoly on the spice trade. This was a direct cause of the Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands (1609–1621). Hein replaced Verhoeff as the fleet's commander. In 1618, when he was captain of the Neptunus, both he and his ship were pressed into…
Fort Nassau on Banda Neira in 1646.
The islands of Run and Nailika, seen from the east in 2006
A portrait of Jan Pieterszoon Coen.