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The Dutch navy was enormously expanded through the largest building programme in its history.
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The navy of the Dutch Republic was the first navy to build the larger ocean-going frigates.
The Dutch navy had three principal tasks in the struggle against Spain: to protect Dutch merchant ships at sea, to blockade the ports of Spanish-held Flanders to damage trade and halt enemy privateering, and to fight the Spanish fleet and prevent troop landings.
In the previous years the French navy had enormously grown in strength and the Dutch Republic would no longer be able to resist a combined Anglo-French attack.
It was originally defined as a light fast sailing vessel used by the Dutch navy to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the shallow waters of the Low Countries.
Yacht (, from Dutch / Low German jacht meaning hunting or hunt, compare Standard German / High German Jagd ) was originally defined as a light, fast sailing vessel used by the Dutch navy to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the shallow waters of the Low Countries.
* April 14 – Second Battle of Playa Honda: The Spanish navy defeats a Dutch fleet in the Philippines.
* June 12 – 13 – First Anglo-Dutch War – Battle of the Gabbard: The English navy defeats the Dutch fleet, which loses 17 ships.
* August 8 – 10 – Battle of Scheveningen: The final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War is fought, between the fleets of the Commonwealth of England and the United Provinces off the Texel ; the English navy gains a tactical victory over the Dutch fleet.
In 1674, Dutch navy captain Jurriaen Aernoutsz also briefly captured two forts in the French colony of Acadia, which he claimed as the Dutch territory of New Holland.
With their victory over the Spanish fleet at the Battle of the Downs, Dutch confidence in their naval abilities grew to such a degree, that after peace was made with Spain, they allowed their navy to deteriorate greatly.
Moreover, the death of Dutch stadtholder William II, who had favoured an expansion of the army at the expense of the navy, had led to a change in the defence policy of the United Provinces towards protecting the great trading concerns of Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
Meanwhile the English navy tried to gain control over the North Sea also and in the two-day Battle of the Gabbard in June drove the Dutch back to their home ports, starting a blockade of the Dutch coast, which led to an immediate collapse of the Dutch economy and even starvation.
Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp ( 23 April 1598 – 10 August 1653 ) was an officer and later admiral in the Dutch navy.
He joined the Dutch navy as a lieutenant in July 1622, entering service with the Admiralty of the Maze based in Rotterdam.
The death of Maarten Tromp was not only a severe blow to the Dutch navy, but also to the Orangists who sought the defeat of the Commonwealth of England and restoration of the Stuart monarchy ; Republican influence strengthened after Scheveningen, which led to peace negotiations with the Commonwealth, culminating in the Treaty of Westminster.
Also the second son of Tromp and his first wife, Dignom Cornelisdochter de Haes, Cornelis Tromp, became later commander of the Dutch navy, as Lieutenant-Admiral-General, and he commanded earlier the Danish navy.
Category: Admirals of the navy of the Dutch Republic
Category: Admirals of the navy of the Dutch Republic
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He was readying a batch of sourdough biscuits for the Dutch oven.
The Dutch Reformed Church, with two steeples and its own school was on Main Street ; ;
( The common misconception that he was Dutch and that his first name was Hendrik stem from Dutch documents of his third voyage.
Dutch Arminianism was originally articulated in the Remonstrance ( 1610 ), a theological statement signed by 45 ministers and submitted to the States-General of the Netherlands.
Jacobus Arminius was a Dutch pastor and theologian in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
This Synod of Dort was open primarily to Dutch Calvinists ( Arminians were excluded ) with Calvinist representatives from other countries, and in 1618 published a condemnation of Arminius and his followers as heretics.
The fort was partially destroyed by the Dutch in the mid 17th century, rebuilt, then destroyed again in 1776 by an earthquake.
( In the 1970s Ruelle and the Dutch mathematician Floris Takens produced a new model for turbulence, and it was Ruelle who invented the concept of a strange attractor in a dynamical system.
The Slogger Turbo Board was a professionally fitted upgrade whereas the Elektuur modification was described in an article in Dutch Electronics magazine Elektuur and intended for users to perform at home.
A book was released to coincide with the exhibition, containing sections in French, Dutch and English.
The Aster CT-80, an early home / personal computer developed by the small Dutch company MCP ( later renamed to Aster Computers ), was sold in its first incarnation as a kit for hobbyists.
It was the first commercially available Dutch personal / home computer.
Remarkably " Aster " was also the name given to a Dutch Supercomputer much later, in 2002.
The aster was chosen for Dutch schools by the Dutch ministry of education, in a set-up with eight disk-less Asters, and one Aster with high capacity floppy drives all connected by a LAN based on the Asters high-speed serial port hardware, and special cables that permitted that any single computer on the LAN could broadcast to all other computers.
Hence, historically, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as " Cape Dutch " ( a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers ) or ' kitchen Dutch ' ( a crude or derogatory term Afrikaans was called in its earlier days ).
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All these sectors had suffered enormously from the war: the British blockade and French and British privateering had almost brought marine trade to a standstill, whereas a commercial treaty with France ( which would have ended French discrimination of Dutch trade in industrial goods ) proved an ever-receding fata morgana.
Although similar developments occurred in all advanced European countries, they were most evident in the enormously productive schools of Dutch Golden Age painting and Flemish Baroque painting.
Gastoldi's Italian works were enormously popular in the Netherlands in Dutch contrefacta.
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During the era of New Imperialism the territorial claims of the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) expanded into a fully fledged colony named the Dutch East Indies.
When the government started to play a more prominent role in Dutch society after 1850, The Hague quickly expanded.
The VOC's territories became the Dutch East Indies and were expanded over the course of the 19th century to include the whole of the Indonesian archipelago, and in the 20th century would form Indonesia.
With the advent of Internet and bet exchange betting, the possibility of fixed-odds arbitrage actions and Dutch books against bookmakers and exchanges has expanded significantly.
Caused by disputes over trade, the war began with English attacks on Dutch merchant shipping, but expanded to vast fleet actions.
The greatly expanded Dutch navy was for numerous years after the world's strongest.
This necessitated a complete revision of the Dutch administrative court system, resulting in a much expanded access to independent administrative courts.
This was due to both Dutch Cup finalists Ajax and PSV qualifying for the recently expanded Champions League.
Cape Colony was formed after the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 permanently ceded the Dutch colony of Cape Town to Britain, and its territory expanded very substantially through the 1800s.
During the English Civil War, the Dutch had taken advantage of the internal strife within their neighbours, and greatly expanded their maritime presence throughout the world's merchant harbors and routes, ultimately even challenging British dominance in its colonies, and the Dutch even boasted of driving all nations out of the sea.
After 1945, the Church expanded in Canada which was the destination of a large group of Dutch emigrants.
Through these expeditions and the Dutch – Portuguese War, Colonial Brazil expanded from the small limits of the Tordesilhas Line to roughly the same borders as current Brazil.
By 1946, the CBC International Service had expanded to include regular transmissions in Czech and Dutch.
The English, after having taken over the New Netherland colony from the Dutch, expanded the previous Dutch settlements along the South Shore at Oude Dorp (" Old Village ") which had been established ten years earlier.
After this period, and with the rise of the Portuguese state after the beginning of the Age of Discovery, Portuguese architecture expanded under the patronage of the wealthy kings, nobility, powerful clergy and through the many battles with rivals such as Castile, the French and Dutch.
The main tournament field was expanded to ten, with invitations to Alberic O ' Kelly de Galway ( Belgium ) and Gösta Stoltz ( Sweden ) along with a Dutch contingent of eight.
The coverage soon expanded to the entire continent and, by issue five, cover stories included features on Brazilian and Dutch underground punk.
The Dutch Reformed Church expanded to the Americas beginning in 1628 in New Amsterdam.
Axim has a prominent seaside fort, Fort Santo Antonio, built by the Portuguese in 1515 and between 1642 and 1872 expanded and altered by the Dutch, who were in possession during that period.
It was built in the Dutch Renaissance style, typical of Danish buildings during this period, and has been expanded several times, finally evolving into its present condition by the year 1624.
Another genre popular in the Middle Ages was the fable, and the most elaborate fable produced by Dutch literature was an expanded adaptation of the Reynard the Fox tale, Vanden vos Reynaerde (" Of Reynard the Fox "), written around 1250 by a person only known to us as Willem.
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