In February 1644, working for the Dutch, Underhill slaughtered an estimated 500 to 700 individuals thought to be of the Siwanoy and Wechquaesgeek groups of the Wappinger Confederacy.

However the Dutch went on to slaughter all vaccinated animals and in the end 250, 000-270, 000 cattle were destroyed, resulting in significantly more cattle slaughtered per infected premises than in the UK.

The same year a ship named the Golden Lion ( Dutch: Gouden Leeuw ) was wrecked at Lamey just off the southwest coast of Taiwan ; the survivors were slaughtered by the native inhabitants.

After the Dutch East India Company was founded in 1602, the Dutch unsuccessfully attacked Macau several times, culminating in a full scale invasion attempt in 1622, when 800 attackers were successfully repelled by 150 Macanese and Portuguese defenders.

From one of these airfields, they were driven out after the first wave of reinforcements, brought in by Ju-52s, was annihilated by anti-aircraft fire and fierce resistance by some remaining Dutch defenders.

Many defenders were killed and the remaining Dutch infantry attempted to escape across the mill bridge, but it collapsed during the retreat and hundreds of Allied troops drowned.

The remaining defenders, a mixture of Dutch and French regulars and native militiamen, withdrew, pursued by the British.

Its defenders were a mixed bag of Dutch, French and East Indies troops.

After a heroic defence, marked by acts of heroism and genius on both sides, the English and Dutch defenders were forced to surrender on 4 August.

After a nine-month siege with the loss of 1, 600 Dutch lives, the Dutch surrendered the Fortress on 1 February 1662, when it became clear that no reinforcements were forthcoming from Batavia ( present day Jakarta, Java, Indonesia ) and when the defenders ran short of fresh water.

After the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Gallas refused to turn up at Chelsea's crowded ranks of defenders at Stamford Bridge, so Chelsea signed Dutch international centre back Khalid Boulahrouz, though in his single season at Chelsea, Boulahrouz would play almost exclusively as a fullback.

They had created special units to capture the bridges over these rivers ( sometimes even clad in Dutch uniforms ), but in all but a few places the Dutch defenders were able to demolish the bridges.

The stop line, the last resort of the Dutch defenders, collapsed and the Germans had broken through the Grebbe Line.

Splatalot ( in Dutch Spetterslot ), a medieval themed game show, similar to Total Wipeout features gunge / slime is fired at the attackers by the defenders at random points in the challenges as a means to slow down the attackers.

Japanese forces landed on the island's east coast on 11 January 1942 and defeated the small Dutch garrison in two days of fighting in which half the defenders were killed.

The Spanish were well informed of the plans, and were able to recruit extra defenders, and were supplied with gunpowder by the Dutch.

A pair of Spanish galleys slipped past the English fleet and repeatedly resupplied the defenders, and at length, with a favourable wind returning, the English abandoned the siege, having lost four captains and several hundred soldiers in the fighting, along with 3, 000 other personnel in 24 of the transports, including many of the Dutch, who found reasons to return to England or put into La Rochelle.

In order not to jeopardise the scheduled transfer of sovereignty, the Indonesian vice-president Mohammad Hatta offered to maintain Dutch sovereignty over New Guinea for one year and reopen the negotiations afterwards.

Shortly afterwards, he began writing Dutch pun poems, which are very playful by nature.

From 1973 to 1977, Duisenberg was Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Joop den Uyl, Shortly afterwards, he gave up his seat in the Dutch parliament to become vice president of Rabobank, a Dutch bank.

William Prince of Orange ( afterwards King William III of Great Britain & Ireland ) landed in Brixham with his mainly Dutch army, on 5 November 1688, during the Glorious Revolution, and issued his famous declaration " The Liberties of England and The Protestant Religion I Will Maintain ".

" On 22 April 1672 he was created an earl, and on 15 June obtained the Garter ; the same month he proceeded with Buckingham on a mission, first to William at The Hague, and afterwards to Louis at Utrecht, endeavouring to force upon the Dutch terms of peace which were indignantly refused, failing to end the Third Anglo-Dutch War.

The overall commanders of the English and Dutch military forces were Lord High Admiral James, Duke of York, afterwards King James II of England, and Admiral-General William III of Orange, James ' son-in-law and also a future King of England.

Soon afterwards he captured a Dutch Guineaman, then two days later an English ship called the Experiment.

He was shortly afterwards appointed by Frederick Henry to the command of the cavalry in the Dutch army, and he took part in the campaigns of 1645 and 1646.

Soon afterwards, in 1602, the Dutch East India Company issued shares, that were made tradeable on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.

For many years afterwards, the cattle here were called Dutch cattle and were renowned for their milking qualities.

At the Dutch university, ( Leiden University ) where he matriculated on 27 October 1745, he associated with a small knot of English youths, afterwards well known in various circles of life, among whom were Dowdeswell, Wilkes, the witty and unprincipled reformer, and Alexander Carlyle, the genial Scotsman, who devotes some of the pages of his Autobiography to chronicling their sayings and their doings.

* after five military governors since the East India Company started chasing the Dutch out of Ceylon in August 1795 and occupying the island ( completed in 16 February 1796 ), their only Resident there was Robert Andrews, 12 February 1796 – 12 October 1798, who was subordinate to the presidency of Madras ( see British India ), afterwards the HEIC appointed Governors as it was made a separate colony

John Churchill, Earl ( later Duke ) of Marlborough, ranked as Captain-General with limited authority over Dutch forces, arrived in the Low Countries soon afterwards to assume control of a multi-national army organised by the Grand Alliance.

He completely dominated Dutch politics and diplomacy in his first years afterwards, even monopolizing the abortive peace talks before the expiration of the Truce.

The Ashanti exploited their military predominance to bring slaves to coastal forts established first by Portugal after 1480, and then soon afterwards by the Dutch, Danish, and English.

" However, Heinrich Brunner explained the application of ' rope ' to an administrative district by the old German custom of defining the limits of the ' peace ' of popular open-air courts by stakes and ropes, the ropes then giving a name first to the court and then afterwards to the area of its jurisdiction, and produced a case where reep, the Dutch cognate of rāp, is applied to such a judicial area.

Shortly afterwards, concerned that the Dutch might make the shoreline before he could bring them to battle despite his wry insistence that " I am determined to fight the ships on land if I cannot by sea ", Duncan ordered his fleet to turn southwards and advance on the enemy and " bear up and sail large ".

The Ashanti Confederacy exploited their military predominance to bring slaves to coastal forts established first by Portugal after 1480, and afterwards by the Dutch, Danish, and English.

The nearby town of Dutch John, Utah, was built to serve as a base camp during construction of the dam, and as an administrative site afterwards.

Shortly afterwards he returned to Europe and settled in Amsterdam where he qualified professionally as a surgeon, his name appearing on the 1679 register of the Dutch Surgeons ' Guild.

Around 16: 00 the Dutch fleet and seven forward English vessels met and almost immediately passed through each other — both sides afterwards claiming to have " broken the enemy line ".

Over the course of several series, other characters were added: Hazel the McWitch, a Scottish witch ; Nadia Popov, a Dutch ghost who suffers from hay fever and teleports away when she sneezes ; and the pantomime horse Dobbin, who first appears in a one-off Christmas special called " Rentasanta " and is brought to life by Claypole, who is unable to cancel the spell afterwards – thus allowing Dobbin to remain in the show for the rest of the run.

Subsequent editions of Nieuwe Vestingbouw appeared in Dutch ( 1702, and frequently afterwards ), English ( London, 1705 ), French ( Wesel, 1705 ), and German ( Düsseldorf, 1709 ).

Louis XIV had hoped that a show of force would lead to a quick resolution to his dynastic and territorial disputes with the princes of the Empire along his eastern border, but his intimidatory moves only strengthened German resolve, and in May 1689 Leopold I and the Dutch signed an offensive compact aimed at repelling French aggression.

Later, on behalf of the Dutch West India Company, Peter Stuyvesant, using both African slaves and white colonists, collaborated with the city government in the construction of a more substantial fortification, a strengthened wall.

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.

Trips to the Netherlands and Belgium in 1846 – 1847 strengthened Courbet's belief that painters should portray the life around them, as Rembrandt, Hals and other Dutch masters had.

The Dutch came back in 1663 and re-occupied and strengthened their earlier forts.

For Sneevliet, this led to his alienation from both and strengthened him in his decision to leave the Netherlands for the Dutch East Indies.

On 28 August 2009 Van Gaal strengthened his team by getting Arjen Robben from Real Madrid, this reunited him with Van Gaal who debuted him in the Dutch National U20 team.

It had a major impact in reshaping the Congregational church, the Presbyterian church, the Dutch Reformed Church, and the German Reformed denomination, and strengthened the small Baptist and Methodist denominations.

The weakened Wendat nation was little match for the strengthened Iroquois, who had used their trading alliances with the Dutch to gain firearms.

This process marks a new episode in the development of the Dutch ethnic group, as now political unity starts to emerge, consolidating the strengthened cultural and linguistic unity.