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Dutch privateering organizations
Dutch privateering organizations were armed raiding groups operating with official license or acquiescence during the Dutch Republic's war of indepen…
Timeline
- c. 1591–1595Middelburg · ZeelandThe States-General and provincial authorities issued letters of marque to merchant-captain consortia, allowing them to attack Spanish and Portuguese shipping and divide spoils as agreed.
- c. 1596–1600Amsterdam · North HollandJoint-stock privateering expeditions appeared in Amsterdam and elsewhere, their targets extending to the Caribbean and East Indies routes, with auctions of captured goods becoming an important source of urban commerce.
Sources
- The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477–1806 — Jonathan Israel (1995)
- Privateering and Piracy in the Early Modern Period