sights include: Fort Sint-Pieter, an early 18th-century military fortress fully restored in recent years; Caves of Maastricht aka Grotten Sint-Pietersberg...

Sint Eustatius (/juːˈsteɪʃəs/ yoo-STAY-shəs, Dutch: [sɪnt øːˈstaː(t)sijʏs] ), known locally as Statia (/ˈsteɪʃə/ STAY-shə), is an island in the Caribbean...

"Willem-Alexander: Sint-Maarten destruction 'worse than any war zone'". Dutchnews.nl. Retrieved 13 March 2019. Janene Pieters. "DUTCH KING VISITS SINT MAARTEN;...

the hill, as well as the nearby village and church of Sint Pieter and the fortress of Sint Pieter, refers to Saint Peter, one of the Twelve Apostles. The...

Flag of Maastricht on top of the Fort Sint Pieter (Saint Peter's Fortress)...

Fort Oranje is a historic fortress located in Sint Eustatius in the Dutch Caribbean. It is located in Oranjestad, the island's capital, on a cliff overlooking...

Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (9 June 1597 – buried 31 May 1665) was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age, known for his distinctive paintings of whitewashed church...

the start of the War of the Spanish Succession, Fort Sint-Pieter was built on the northern flank of Sint-Pietersberg under the leadership of Van Dopff....

time to inspect the fortifications, including the Fort Sint Pieter and the under construction Fort Willem I. William I would maintain a special bond with...

op Zoom to sell their goods. Because of this major economic growth, the Sint-Gertrudischurch was enlarged. The enlargement was called the Nieuw Werck...

Alcion (24 guns) - (Cornelis Stolwijk) Sunk Popkensburg (24 guns) - (Pieter Slolwyck) Sint Salvador (6 guns) The French fleet retreated but made a second attempt...

Zaanstad Zaandam, sluice Assendelft, church: the Sint-Odulphuskerk Westknollendam, ditch: de Tapsloot The fort near Krommeniedijk "Burgemeester mr. G.H. Faber...

The capital of Berbice was at Fort Nassau until 1790. In that year, the town of New Amsterdam, which grew around Fort Sint Andries, was made the new capital...

2022. Main languages (2021) English: Sint Eustatius 81%, Saba 83% "What are the languages of Sint Maarten?". sint-maarten.net. 2022. English is the primary...

protect them, the people of Sinkan went to Japan for protection. In 1629, Pieter Nuyts visited Sinkan with 60 musketeers. After leaving the next morning...

longer capable of defending its own colonies, as Sint Eustatius, Berbice, Essequibo, Demerara, and some forts on the Dutch Gold Coast were rapidly taken by...

French after incompetent defence by Lt. General Pieter de la Rocque. In the seventeenth century, a star fort was constructed. The fortifications, constructed...

Governor Pieter Stuyvesant of Curaçao sent five large Dutch ships, a pink, and two tenders on a campaign to reconquer the former WIC base of Sint Maarten...

vir enim sui Every man for himself! omnibus idem the same to all motto of Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, usually accompanied by a sun, which shines for (almost)...

"Golden Rock" is the regional anthem of Sint Eustatius, which was established by the Island Council on July 29, 2004, and was officially ratified on October...

The initial trading factory gave rise to the settlement around Fort Amsterdam. The fort was situated on the strategic southern tip of the island of Manhattan...

460 (now called Château Rougesse). Sint-Niklaaskerk Ter Pannemolen of Gailliaertmolen Fort van Beieren Hoeve Fort van Beieren "LISTE ALPHABETIQUE DES...

ammunition to the rebels in the American Revolutionary War via the colony of Sint Eustatius, this aroused anger from Britain. When the British arrested the...

Grimbergen, however in 2000 an extension was added. The main annual event is the Sint-Servaasommegang, loosely translated as procession of Saint Servatius. It...

Johns, taken from Thais Hill (2024) Mount Scenery "Geodata 2001, Saba & Sint.Eustatius, Census 2001". Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, Netherlands...

1668, he was posted as an ensign in Fort Sint-Anna (Saaftinge) [nl] until 1670, when he became a captain at Fort Lillo. During this time Colve was court-martialled...

family that originally came from Sint-Maartensdijk. His father was William van der Puije (born 1703). He was governor of Fort Crèvecoeur in Accra from 1776...

cannons in Fort Amsterdam. The town was named after captain Pieter de Meij. In 1707, the town of Otrobanda was established on the other side of Sint Anna Bay...

Islands) Dutch (official language of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten, and Suriname) Haitian Creole (official language of Haiti)...

vocabulary of the day, rather than New Netherland. According to a letter by Pieter Janszoon Schagen, Peter Minuit and Walloon colonists of the West India Company...