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From the 1620s, Dutch raiders seriously troubled Spanish shipping and, after a number of battles which went both ways, the Dutch Navy finally broke the long dominance of the Spanish Navy in the Battle of the Downs ( 1639 ).
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From and 1620s
From the 1620s, many of the Irish Catholic merchant class in this period migrated voluntarily to the West Indies to avail of the business opportunities there occasioned by the trade in sugar, tobacco and cotton.
From the 1620s until the American Revolution, the British colonies in North America received transported British criminals.
From and Dutch
From 1950 to 1970, Boerhaave's image was printed on Dutch 25-guilder banknotes.
From 1956 to 1961, Dutch importer Hart, Nibbrig & Greve assembled the cars in an abandoned asphalt-factory in Sassenheim, where they employed about 120 workers, two transporter, that collected the SKD-kits from Duesseldorf and build about 13. 500 cars.
From his sophomore year he additionally began to focus on Germanic languages completing coursework in Gothic, Old High German, Old Saxon, Icelandic, Dutch, Swedish and Danish.
From the beginning the Emperor had refused to accept the will of Charles II, and he did not wait for England and the Dutch Republic to begin hostilities.
From 1615 to 1638, Jan Mayen was used as a whaling base by the Dutch Noordsche Compagnie, which had been given a monopoly on whaling in the Arctic regions by the States General in 1614.
From then on, the island ’ s " Port de Warwick " was used by the Dutch as a stopover after long months at sea.
From that date, Dutch sailors shifted their choice to “ Rade des Tortues ” as a harbor.
From June 26 until December 22, 2006, two children, Ammar ( 12-13 ) and Sara ( 10-11 ), lived in the Dutch embassy in Damascus because of a child custody dispute between the Dutch mother, supported by Dutch law and the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, and the Syrian father, supported by Syrian law ( Syria is no participant of this convention ).
From the last quarter of the 17th century, the group consisted of six undisputedly Dutch islands: Curaçao ( settled in 1634 ), Aruba ( settled in 1636 ), Bonaire ( settled in 1636 ), Sint Eustatius ( settled in 1636 ), Saba ( settled in 1640 ) and Sint Maarten ( settled in 1648 ).
From the beginning of the 17th century the Dutch cannibalized the Portuguese Empire in the East and, with the immense wealth gained, challenged Spanish hegemony at sea.
From the 16th century some coastal areas of the country were ruled by the Portuguese, Dutch and British.
From that time on until the 1950s the Royal Dutch East Indies Army, Royal Dutch Army, Royal Dutch Navy and Dutch police used these cutlasses called Klewang.
From the 16th century to 1795, Holland was the wealthiest and most important province in the United Provinces in the Dutch Republic.
From 1 July 2008, anyone over the age of 16 is permitted to use a Segway on Dutch roads but users need to buy custom insurance.
From 1588 The Hague also became the location of the government of the Dutch Republic.
From that date on, European leaders commonly took advantage of the low interest rates available in the Republic and borrow several hundred millions on the Dutch capital market.
From about 1600 the English, French and Dutch began to find colonies in the North American mainland and the smaller islands of the West Indies.
From 1678, the British appointed a deputy-governor for the Territory ( initially for the Territory and Saba and St. Eustatius, until the latter two islands were returned to the Dutch ).
From and raiders
From the late 8th century BC a new wave of Indo-European speaking raiders entered northern and north east Anatolia, namely the Cimmerians and Scythians.
From the end of the 3rd century, Heruls are also mentioned as raiders in Gaul and Spain, together with Saxons, Franks and Alamanni.
From then until after the war was over, the small group of raiders plundered Union shipping, inflicting damage on the American Merchant Marine that persists to the present day.
From the Civil War, when Confederate raiders targeted American whalers, through the early 20th century, the American whaling industry was overwhelmed by new, crippling economic competition, especially from kerosene, which was a superior fuel for lighting.
From and seriously
`` From time to time since the present war began there have been reports that one or more of the Axis powers were seriously contemplating use of poisonous gas or noxious gases or other inhumane devices of warfare.
From the outset of the reign of Charles the Bald, the integrity of Anjou was seriously menaced by a twofold danger: from Brittany ( on the west side boundary ) and from Normandy ( on the north side boundary ).
From Ali's point of view, a loss here would have seriously dented his claim of ever being ' The Greatest '.
From 1942 to 1944, RCA Victor was seriously impacted by the American Federation of Musicians recording ban.
From when the Currie Cup became an annual competition until the mid-1980s only one team had seriously challenged the supremacy of the Western Province rugby club — arch rivals Northern Transvaal, also known as the " Blue Bulls ".
He was featured in the second part of a segment called " Real Characters From the DC Universe " where the narrator ( voiced by Kevin Shinick ) of that segment doesn't take him seriously.
Most of the anonymous confessional letters were dismissed by the police as hoaxes but one, known as the " From Hell " letter after a phrase used by the writer, was treated more seriously ; it was sent with a small box containing half of a preserved human kidney.
From May to June 2012 it carried out inspections and found that 250 of 298 companies ( over 80 %) violated the Road Transportation Law, with 48 companies breaching it seriously and one even lending its name to another company.
Special reports include Counting Cops in which he showed the Savannah Metropolitan Police Department was seriously understaffed and Houses From Hell which drew attention to some of the city ’ s worst dilapidated houses.
From 1930, production was solely of trucks and buses which had been made seriously since 1922.
From August 1991 to January 1992 he shot eleven people in the Stockholm and Uppsala area, most of whom were immigrants, killing one and seriously injuring the others.
From and troubled
From 1935 to 1940 he lectured at the University of Rochester and wrote The Clinical Treatment of the Problem Child ( 1939 ), based on his experience in working with troubled children.
From 1138 onwards, Stephen gave them the earldoms of Worcester, Leicester, Hereford, Warwick and Pembroke, which — especially when combined with the possessions of Stephen's new ally, Prince Henry, in Cumberland and Northumbria — created a wide block of territory to act as a buffer zone between the troubled south-west, Chester and the rest of the kingdom.
In June 2007, she appeared in the HBO series John From Cincinnati with a starring role as matriarch of a troubled Imperial Beach, California surfing family and the grandmother / guardian of a teen surfer on the brink of greatness.
From 1138 onwards, Stephen gave them the earldoms of Worcester, Leicester, Hereford, Warwick and Pembroke, which — especially when combined with the possessions of Stephen's new ally, Prince Henry, in Cumberland and Northumbria — created a wide block of territory to act as a buffer zone between the troubled south-west, Chester and the rest of the kingdom.
From the very beginning, German military operations on the northern front were troubled by unexpectedly obstinate resistance from American troops.
From a cricketing viewpoint, the tour was challenging, played on matting pitches which were unfamiliar to English players and against South African googly bowlers who previously troubled most leading English batsmen.
From this day forward, we shall join forces for a common purpose: to save the troubled and to aid the endangered.
From her the Mau has been described as having a " troubled " look, with their round eyes and open expression.
From September 2004 until May 2010, Fox played the role of the dedicated yet troubled surgeon, Dr. Jack Shephard, on Lost.
From an early age the young Jordan was troubled by the racial and economic injustice that he perceived in his community.
From 1925 to his death in 1943, Mordacq wrote more than twenty books and published dozens of articles in influential reviews to promote the action of Clemenceau and his in the troubled days from November 1917 to 1920, explaining the choices and reforms which were made in order to achieve military and political victory.
From the beginning, the BfV was troubled by a number of affairs.
From 1912 he was associated with Max Goschen, a troubled London publisher.
From 1998 to 2006, Booker lived in Brick Towers, a troubled housing complex in Newark's Central Ward.
From 1440 to 1449 the Church was troubled by an antipope, Amadeus of Savoy, calling himself Felix V, who had a large following in Savoy and Switzerland.
From 1849 the political history of Florence and Tuscany became troubled.
From this time forward Neville took a prominent part in the troubled politics of the period.
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