Dutch Cape– In 1652, under Jan van Riebeeck, the Dutch East India Company established a strategic refueling station at theCape of Good Hope, positioned between their East and West Indies colonies. The British seized control of this colony in 1797 during the First Coalition Wars and formally an...
Wijsenbeek, Thera, `Identity Lost: Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic and its Former Colonies in North America and South Africa, 1650 to 1750: A Comparison', South African Historical Journal 59:1 (2007) 79-102Wijsenbeek, T. 2007. Identity Lost: Huguenot refugees in the Dutch Republic ...
The ruler of England after Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, continued policies designed to counter Dutch influence on the high seas and in North America, where both countries had set up colonies. The European powers ratcheted up tensions in the 1650s, and a refusal of Dutch Lieutenant-Admiral ...
Parts of your autosomal DNA will be the same on both your mother’s and father’s sides, meaning your DNA will be fully identical in some locations. (I’ll explain more in a minute.) If either (or both) of your parents are from an endogamous population, you: Will, in some cases,...
power, full of luxury goods, still lifes became an independent genre. Still lifes included domestic goods, such as cheese, herrings, beer, and butter, all symbolizing the country’s economic power. Luxurious foreign goods, imported from Dutch colonies, were included in so-calledpronkstilleven....
Wijsenbeek, Thera, `Identity Lost: Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic and its Former Colonies in North America and South Africa, 1650 to 1750: A Comparison', South African Historical Journal 59:1 (2007) 79-102Wijsenbeek, T. 2007. Identity Lost: Huguenot refugees in the Dutch Republic ...
Louis returned in April 1568 to lead an invasion of the northern Netherlands, which is considered the beginning of theEighty Years’ War, the war of the Netherlands’s independence from Spain. He defeated Spanish troops atHeiligerlee, east of Groningen (May 23), where his brother Adolph was ...
The Doric order, probably the earliest, remained the favourite of the Greek mainland and western colonies. The Ionic order developed in eastern Greece; on the mainland, it was used chiefly for smaller temples and interiors. Both Doric and Ionic orders are present in the Athens Acropolis, the ...
The two pandemics of DED had a large impact both in North America and Europe, destroying large quantities of high-quality wood and severely diminishing elm’s role in forest ecosystems [21,22]. In Romania, elm dieback was recorded in the beginning of the last century [23] and SSNU in th...
New York, constituent state of the United States of America, one of the 13 original colonies and states. New York is bounded to the west and north by Lake Erie, the Canadian province of Ontario, Lake Ontario, and the Canadian province of Quebec; to the east by the New England states of...