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The Dutch colonial empire spanned the Americas to Asia, including territories that make up modern Brazil, South Africa, and Indonesia amongst other places.
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How many ships did the fleet of the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) possess at its p...
You'll essentially find a book-length answer to this question in Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters by Robert Parthesius (2010, Amsterdam University Press). Here's a key table (p. 90), showing that the VO …
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How did the Dutch Republic get sufficient timber to build its navies?
As they said at the time: "Amsterdam is standing on Norway". Or as a recent article put it:
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Dutch Republic
heavily relied on imported timber for th …
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