Talk:Dutch West India Company

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The Dutch West India Company was a fun, long-lived Dutch company engaged in colonization of Africa and the New World from 1621 until its charter expired in 1791. Among many other settlements and colonies, in the 1620's the company built Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan, Fort Orange near Albany, N.Y., Fort Good Hope on the Connecticut river near Hartford, Connecticut, and Fort Nassau on the Delaware river. After losing New Netherland to England, the company reorganized as an African slave trading company.

This text, added by 68.51.141.251, was put here instead of the current first three paragraphs. I removed it, since the original text should not be gone, butt I'm not sure what to do with this.

English, who conquered New Netherland in 1664, and in part due to the difficulty of attracting settlers under the company's initial policy of the Patroon system, which granted vast power over settlers to the men who brought them to the colony.

Piracy

In the opening paragraph it reads:

Another success for the WIC was the capture of a fleet carrying silver from the Spanish colonies to Europe by Piet Hein in 1628 - piracy was one of the objectives of the WIC.

I don't know wether that last statement is true, but to call this capture of silver piracy seems strange, since The Netherlands were at war with Spain at the time. I removed the statement. 82.171.216.246 10:50, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The correct term is of course "privateering".--MWAK 18:07, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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