On Sunday 25 March 1647, shortly after five o’clock in the afternoon, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship Nieuw Haarlem or Haarlem wrecked in Table Bay, off the coast of South Africa. The events that followed had far-reaching consequences for the history of South Africa. 58 of the crewContinue Reading
May 11, 1647: Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City. With certainty that putting New Netherland to rights was the work which God had saved him for, he began the task of rebuildingContinue Reading
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