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    settlements in Bombay of further apprehension from the Dutch. In 1679 when Rijckloff van Goens arrived at Cape Town, while recuperating from an illness. He recommended...
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  • Rijckloff van Goens Jr. was a Governor of Dutch Ceylon during its Dutch period. He was appointed in 1675 and was Governor until 1680. He was succeeded...
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  • the distance in 3 months and 4 (or 10) days, delivering governor Rijckloff van Goens a stack of letters from which the traveling time could be confirmed...
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    Malabar (1658–1663) encompassed a series of military campaigns led by Rijckloff van Goens with the objective of acquiring Portuguese-controlled territories...
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    Dutch period. The island was named after the Dutch city of Delft by Rijckloff van Goens. He named the eight most important islands after Dutch cities. In...
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    Dutch Bengal. Hendrik van Schuylenburgh, 1665. The capture of Cochin from the Portuguese by Rijckloff van Goens in 1663. Atlas van der Hagen, 1682. The...
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  • Hague. Despite the peace treaty the Dutch East India Company under Rijckloff van Goens would capture a few more Portuguese settlements in Asia before hostilities...
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    Van Nimwegen 2010, pp. 442–443. Rodger 2004, p. 82. Van Nimwegen 2010, p. 439. Troost 2001, p. 83. Van Nimwegen 2010, pp. 441–442. Prud'homme van Reine...
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    Anthony van Diemen 1636 1645 10 Cornelis van der Lijn 1645 1650 11 Carel Reyniersz 1650 1653 12 Joan Maetsuycker 1653 1678 13 Rijckloff van Goens 1678 1681...
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    then allowed Rijckloff van Goens to launch a campaign, with Mannar being one of his targets.[citation needed] Admiral Rijckloff van Goens arrived before...
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  • 1653 and was Governor until 12 May 1660, when he was succeeded by Rijckloff van Goens. His second term lasted from 1661 to 1663. Cahoon, Ben. "Dutch Governors"...
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    could about the Spice Islands. In 1595, merchant and explorer Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, having traveled widely in the Indian Ocean in the service of...
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    Gujuratis, Parsis, Dawoodi Bohras, and Jews. On 20 February 1673, Rijckloff van Goens, the Governor-General of Dutch India attacked Bombay, but the attack...
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    Governor Rijckloff van Goens Jr. (1675-1679), who had succeeded his father in 1675 Subsequent to the departure of Governor Rijcklof van Goens, and with...
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    1661, but then decided to take part in the conquest of Cochin under Rijckloff van Goens and only returned to the Netherlands in September 1662. Godske also...
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  • was governor of Ceylon until 19 November 1664. He was succeeded by Rijckloff van Goens. "De VOCsite: Biografie Jacob Hustaert". Cahoon, Ben. "Dutch Governors"...
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  • better than anybody else - up to the present at any rate". Rijckloff van Goens, advising van Riebeeck on defence matters, took Doman to Java in the Dutch...
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  • in Sri Lanka has been known since 1675 when the Dutch governor, Rijckloff van Goens, mentions the existence of veins of 'potloop' in the hills and maritime...
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  • Rijckloff van Goens April 1665 1675 12 Ryklof van Goens de jonge 1675 2 December 1679 13 Laurens van Pyl 3 December 1679 19 June 1693 14 Thomas van Rhee...
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    ambassador in Quilon, after the occupation of the Malabar Coast by Rijckloff van Goens. During this period he visited several chiefs of indigenous tribes...
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  • general (1650–1653) Joan Maetsuycker, Governors general (1653–1678) Rijckloff van Goens, Governors general (1678–1681) Cornelis Speelman, Governors general...
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  • appointed as acting Governor of Ceylon on 19 November 1664 and until Rijckloff van Goens, who had previously held this office, returned from Batavia in April...
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    governor-general, a post he took up on 25 November 1681, succeeding Rijckloff van Goens. During the term of office of Cornelis Speelman as governor-general...
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  • Nayak kingdom Dutch Republic  VOC Commanders and leaders Unknown Rijckloff van Goens Strength 10,000 soldiers 400 soldiers Casualties and losses 400 dead...
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  • Laurens van Pyl was a Dutch colonial administrator who held the post of Governor of Dutch Ceylon. He was appointed on 3 December 1680, and was governor...
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    Hendrik van Rheede and Isaac de l'Ostal de Saint-Martin. In 1663 he was involved in the attack on the Malabar coast under Rijckloff of Goens, in 1667...
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    on his way to Ceylon. Baldaeus preached from 1657 to 1658 during Rijckloff van Goens's campaign against the Portuguese in Negapatnam on the Coromandel...
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