The Fur Trade French merchants made money selling the fur from the animals that lived in the area: beaver, fox, and otter. The fur traders traded with the Indians. The Indians gave the French traders fur and the French gave the Indians goods such as beads, pots, knives, and cloth. The...
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had long been the enemy of the Dutch, who insulted or ridiculed him to their hearts' content, although it must be said that they generally used French refugees for the mouthpiece of their spite. View in context Our grandfathers and great- grandfathers were just respectable English or Dutch mer...
Kingdom of Sweden (1933-1945) Armored Car – 18 Built Lithuania (1933-1940) 6 Purchased Soviet Union (1940-1941) 6 Captured Kingdom of the Netherlands (1934-1940) 12 Purchased German Reich (1940-1945) 12 Captured The Swedish Landsverk series of armored cars from the Interwar period were ...
Between the British and French and all other modern colonial empires there were contrasts in size so great as to amount to a difference in kind. Britain and France had world-wide empires of immense diversity: the rest were relatively small and geographically localized. Except for the United ...
Two names stand out as being architects of the new Dutch colonial state in Indonesia. Firstly, Herman Willem Daendels, Governor-General from 1808 to 1811 during the French occupation of Holland and, secondly, British Lieutenant Sir Stamford Raffles, Governor-General from 1811 to 1816 during the ...
During this unstable period, power passed to local nobles, whose arms and castles offered protection in return for rent, labor, and taxes. This system gradually declined when, beginning in the 1300s, much of the Netherlands was taken by the dukes of Burgundy, a powerful French feudal dynasty...
DuringWorld War II, the Netherlands fell underNazi Germanoccupation, while Indonesia was occupied byJapan. Post-war, the Dutch attempted to reclaim their colony fiercely, unlike in former French colonies where cultural ties endured. Dutch New Guinea remained under Dutch control until 1962, when it...
The 13 Colonies 2. The Dutch settled tiny Governors Island before Manhattan. Fur-trading expeditions up the Hudson River got going almost immediately after Hudson’s voyage, but the colony grew at a snail’s pace. The first major group of settlers did not arrive until 1624, when 30 French-...
away and having never seen the European Colonies, dare not come down to com-plain”. In addition, the commander emphasized that in known cases“legal proofis always wanting”,since“the Indians are not believed [in Court] [sic!]”.59Thispractice is impressively illustrated in the well-documen...