The Groot Desseyn (Dutch for 'Grand Design') was a plan devised in 1623 by the Dutch West India Company to seize the Portuguese/Spanish possessions of...

Brazilian city of Salvador by the latter. This capture was part of the Groot Desseyn plan of the Dutch West India Company. Although the Dutch intentions...

India Company, the company's directors, the Heeren XIX, devised the Groot Desseyn in October 1623. The plan was to first seize the capital of Brazil,...

1636, 547 Spanish and Portuguese ships were hijacked. After this, the Groot Desseyn was developed, the big plan. By taking over the slave trade the Portuguese...

the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas. As part of the Groot Desseyn plan, admiral Jacob Willekens led a GWC force to Salvador in December...

was over, the Republic had a free hand to re-wage war with Spain. A Groot Desseyn ("grand design") was devised to seize the Portuguese colonies in Africa...

seize the Portuguese colonies in Africa and America as part of the Groot Desseyn plan. After failing in 1625, the company managed to capture Elmina Castle...

River as the southernmost border of their operations. As part of the Groot Desseyn plan, the Dutch West India Company, which had been founded in 1621,...

to integrate the Louvre Palace and Tuileries Palace in Paris, France Groot Desseyn, the Dutch West India Company's plan to seize the Iberian Union's possessions...

secured control over the entire region. Following the initiation of the Groot Desseyn by the Dutch West India Company, a strategic endeavor marked by its...

van Zuylen was a Dutch corsair active in the 1620s. As part of the Groot Desseyn plan, he was particularly active against the Portuguese in West Africa...

van den Berghe Taverniers 7   Veerle Malschaert Carla Desseyn   45 Wim van der Grijn Sam de Groot   6   Bert Cosemans Johan Van Lancker Patrick Levie  ...