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	JewishEncyclopedia.com - CURAÇAO:
		An island of the Dutch West Indies, captured from Spain in 1634.
		In March, 1651, the directors of the Dutch West India Company (in which Jews were large stockholders) wrote to Peter Stuyvesant, the governor of New Netherlands, that they were seriously considering the abandonment of Curaçao, since the island was not proving a source of revenue.
		The history of the effective settlement of Jews in Curaçao begins, however, in 1654, when the conquest of Brazil by the Portuguese resulted in the expulsion of the Jews and their dispersion to the West Indies and to the mainland of North America, particularly to New Netherlands and to Newport, Rhode Island.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=932&letter=C (1795 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - West Indies
		West Indies, an archipelago, or group of islands, that extends in an arc from near southern Florida to the coast of Venezuela.
		The West Indies archipelago consists of four island chains: The Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the eastern and southern islands of the Lesser Antilles.
		Except for the northern half of The Bahamas, the islands of the West Indies are all in the tropics, the warm climate zone between latitudes 10° and 23°27’ north.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761555176__1/West_Indies.html (9616 words)

	Netherlands Antilles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen), previously known as the Netherlands West Indies, are part of the Lesser Antilles and consist of two groups of islands in the Caribbean Sea that form an autonomous part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (none of the other Antilles use this term in their name).
		In the 17th century, the islands were conquered by the Dutch West India Company and were used as bases for slave trade.
		Although the official language is Dutch, Papiamento is predominant on Curaçao and Bonaire (as well as the neighboring Dutch island of Aruba).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dutch_West_Indies (1032 words)

	Caribbean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Caribbean, (Spanish: Caribe) or the West Indies is a group of countries and islands in the Caribbean Sea.
		The name "West Indies" originates from Christopher Columbus' idea that he had landed in the Indies (then meaning all of south and east Asia) when he had in fact reached the Americas.
		British West Indies / Anglophone_Caribbean - Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and the Turks and Caicos Islands
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_Indies (747 words)

	west indies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea.
		The name "West Indies" originates from Christopher Columbus' idea that he had landed in India when he had in fact reached the Americas.
		British West Indies - Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and the Turks and Caicos Islands
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /West_Indies.html (465 words)

	CURACAO - LoveToKnow Article on CURACAO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		It bears a strong resemblance to a Dutch town, for the houses are built in the style of those of Amsterdam, and the narrow channel separating it from its western suburb of Overzijde and the waters of the Waigat, which intersect it, recall the canals.
		Curaao gives name to the government of the Dutch West Indies, which consists of Aruba, an island lying W. of Curacao, with an area of 69 sq.
		The island of Curaao has a population of 30,119; and altogether the Dutch West Indies have a population of 51,693.
	50.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CU/CURACAO.htm (454 words)

	Emancipation (from history of West Indies) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		West Indian Creole societies were shaken by the successful slave rebellion in Saint-Domingue in the 1790s that resulted in Haiti's independence in 1804, thus creating the first fl republic in the Americas.
		In 1807 Britain abolished the slave trade, and in 1833 slavery itself was abolished in the British West Indies.
		The West Indies derives its coherence and distinctiveness from a combination of four factors, one geographic,...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-54386?tocId=54386 (750 words)

	Privateers and Pirates
		Dutch Freebooter and privateer in the latter half of the Seventeenth century.
		The fleet sailed from 1642 to 1645 in the West Indies.
		He was cleared of the charges against him, and he returned to the West Indies as a privateer in command of a fleet.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Garden/5213/privatq.htm (990 words)

	West Indies
		The Caribbean (Dutch: Caraïben; French: Caraïbes; Spanish: Caribe; Portuguese: Caribe or Caraíbas) is a region of the Americas consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (most of which enclose the sea), and the surrounding coasts.
		The West Indies consist of the Antilles, divided into the larger Greater Antilles which bound the sea on the north and the Lesser Antilles on the south and east (including the Leeward Antilles), and the Bahamas.
		Geopolitically, the West Indies are usually reckoned as a subregion of North America and are organised into 28 territories including sovereign states, overseas departments, and dependencies.
	www.hometownfreepress.com /west_indies.htm (1247 words)

	Dutch Support of America's Independence 1770-1782
		Dutch evade British blockage of colonies by shipping goods to lesser ports enabling the flow of gun powder purchased by France to continue to Washington's army.
		The Dutch are under treaty obligation with Britain to return a brigade of soldiers known as the "Scotts Brigade," once loaned to the Dutch by England.
		They (the Dutch) are ill prepared for war and lose their West Indies colonies and their merchant fleet.
	www.continentalline.org /articles/9503/950303.htm (602 words)

	Dutch West India Company. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The phenomenal success of the Dutch East India Company was an influential factor in its establishment.
		England could not then afford to antagonize the Dutch because of wars with France and Spain and so permitted the Dutch settlement to be made on lands that England claimed.
		New Netherland remained under the control of the company until the English finally conquered it in 1664 (see New York, state).
	www.bartleby.com /65/du/DutchWIC.html (296 words)

	On the The Trail of Our Ancestors/Religion in New Amsterdam
		As might be expected the Reformed Dutch Church (Calvinistic in theology) was the predominant church in seventeenth century New Amsterdam.
		In fact, the Dutch West Indies Company entrusted the care of its colonies to the Classis of Amsterdam, by which body all the colonial clergy were approved and commissioned.
		When the Dutch came to New Amsterdam, religious services were at first held on Sundays in the upper floor of the horse-mill and consisted of reading the Commandments, creed, and occasionally, a printed sermon, as well as the singing of hymns.
	www.ristenbatt.com /genealogy/dutch_re.htm (1531 words)

	KIDCYBER TOPICS
		The Dutch set up The Dutch East Indies Company in Batavia, which is part of what is now Indonesia.
		Minuit died in a hurricane in the West Indies in 1638.
		Bouwerie is the old Dutch word for farm, and today that part of New York City is called the Bowery.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/Netherexplore.htm (592 words)

	Colonial Flags (Brandenburg, Germany)
		In 1720 a treaty was concluded between the King of Prussia and the Dutch, and all the African forts of Brandenburg were sold to the Hollanders, but the African ally of Prussia/Brandenburg, John Couny, refused to surrender Gross-Friedrichsburg.
		The fort was abandoned by the Dutch in 1815.
		The two objections (supported in part by the fact that the ships and colony had been sold to the Dutch West Indies Company) are reason enough to regard this flag as doubtful.
	www.fotw.net /Flags/de-br_co.html (954 words)

	The forgotten history of the slave trade (Netherlands) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Dutch role in the slave trade is often said to be overlooked or unknown, rather than intentionally ignored.
		Kees Zandvliet is head of the Dutch history department in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and curator of their recent exhibition "The Dutch Encounter with Asia".
		Most wives of Dutch men had begun their lives as slaves and could be freed after the death of their "boss" or husband if his will specifically requested it.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/835549/posts (1848 words)

	The Jews of Cuba
		Built in 1732, the arching yellow Dutch building is the oldest synagogue in continuous use in the Americas.
		The Curacao Jews left their mark in the Dutch West Indies, turning Willemstad into a major hemispheric shipping center and even influencing the eventual lingua franca of the Dutch West Indies.
		He became a lieutenant in the Dutch cavalry, was taken prison and died at the Dachau concentration camp.
	www.jewishcuba.org /carib.html (1193 words)

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		These were the only Dutch colonies that had a coinage.
		The Dutch history in the West was a stormy and true example of their spirit and perseverance in maintaining their strongholds in the colonial territories.
		Complete dominion of all the Dutch colonies was restored to the following British occupation, by the “Treaty of Amiens” as amended in 1814.
	www.museumaruba.org /docs/Dutch_West_Indie_Company.doc (239 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: Dutch West Indies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Colony of the Netherlands, consisting of: Surinam or Dutch Guiana, on the northern coast of South America, area, 54,291 square miles, and a small group of islands in the Caribbean Sea, known as Curacao (area, 403 square miles.
		Confusion caused by the long struggle of the Netherlands, France, and England, for possession of this region, made it difficult to establish permanent missions; and for some time Catholic missionaries were restricted by the Protestant authorities of Dutch Guiana.
		In 1634 the Dutch West India Company forbade the practise of Catholicity, but in the next century.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/ncd02898.htm (171 words)

	eendracht
		A Frigata was dispatched with soldiers and sailors to salvage the Almiranta's guns and it was discovered that, in actuality, it was the Dutch navio that had gone down.
		According to Dr. Mathewson the "Dutch vessel may have very significant cargo." It is not unlikely that some treasures would have been transferred from the Spanish ship to the Eendracht to be under the watchful eye of Capt. Janszoon.
		The company was mainly active in three areas: Shipping slaves to America, Establishing Dutch colonies in the West Indies and Privateering.
	www.nvo.com /treasure/dutchwarship/index.nhtml (634 words)

	What if: Chavez invades Dutch West Indies? - Military Photos
		The nearest Dutch territory is St. Marteen, which is anywhere from 844 (to Bonaire) to 965 (to Aruba) kilometers from the combat zone.
		The present Dutch deployment (a battalion of troops and a flight of F-16s over three islands) is small, and a bluff.
		But once the Dutch get the cruise missile's I think they will destroy most of the Venezulan air force on the ground so the limited range of their F-16's won't be as much of a problem.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=105995 (1485 words)

	Caribbean History: West Indies Companies \| caribbean-guide.info
		It is important to remember that the colonization in the West Indies followed movement toward the East Indies by a number of nations.
		By 1646, the company had realized that its schemes for domination of trade in the West Indies were failing, so the company reorganized itself the following year as a commercial group, supplying slaves and goods to the Caribbean while relying on the Dutch crown for protection.
		It became their capital in the West Indies when one of the adventurers who made his way to the island, Pierre Belain, sieur d'Esnambuc, brought back a great deal of tobacco to France.
	caribbean-guide.info /past.and.present/history/west.indies.companies (669 words)

	West Indies steamroller the Dutch
		The West Indian team, buoyed by their success against England in the one day series, took to the field high in spirits with plenty of fielders in the catching cordon to encourage opening bowlers Darren Powell and Ravi Rampaul.
		The West Indies took to their task with ruthless efficiency and secured a comfortable win and a bonus point for their superior run rate.
		There were few points of consolation for the Dutch although the composed innings of Kervezee and the bowling of Mudassar Bukhari were promising signs for the rest of the tournament.
	www.cricketeurope4.net /DATABASE/ARTICLES/articles/000051/005101.shtml (733 words)

	Dutch West Indian Peanut Sauce
		The sauce is designed to be served with Dutch West Indian Chicken Kebabs, but it’s great with any type of saté, as well as grilled chicken or seafood.
		I hope Dutch West Indian Peanut Sauce is what you were looking for.
		Dutch West Indian Peanut Sauce is from the Cook'n & Grill'n collection.
	www.dvo.com /recipe_pages/grilln/Dutch_West_Indian_Peanut_Sauce.html (433 words)

	Donna Speer Ristenbatt Genealogy/A Bit of Dutch History
		It was not until 1648 that the new northern state known as the Netherlands, the Dutch Republic and Holland came into existence through the Treaty of Munster.
		In 1623, officials of the Dutch West Indies Company were permitted to establish and govern the colonies as they saw fit.
		The Domini, or Reformed Dutch Church Pastor, convinced Stuyvesant that the Dutch were outgunned and that it was senseless to fight, and thus Governor Stuyvesant surrendered to the English.
	www.ristenbatt.com /genealogy/dutch_hs.htm (1012 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Dutch West Indies are self-governing territories of the kingdom of the Netherlands.
		They include the island of Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles, which is made up of all the remaining Dutch islands.
		Netherlands West Indies, includes two islands off the coast of Venezuela, Curaçao and Bonaire, and three near Puerto Rico, Sint Maarten, Saba and Sint Eustatius.
	www.edunetconnect.com /cat/caribbean/nethant.html (188 words)

	MATHIJS JANSEN VAN CEULEN
		Cornellis Jansen van Ceulen, a sailor for the Dutch West Indies.
		Mathijs, at the age of 20, signed the Dutch West India charter on 3 June, 1621, as a Principal Partner, Lord-Director.
		When we read of the Dutch West India Company in school, it is generally portrayed as a trading company, securing raw materials from the New World for Dutch Manufaturing.
	www.angelfire.com /id/vancuren/mattys.html (1219 words)

	Dutch West Indies "crisis" - World Affairs Board
		This really isn't on the news and the only coverage I've found thus far is from strategypage.com (I know) but it could potentially be interesting to watch the situation develop.
		If he does I'd expect serious econimic sanctions, A US blockade of the islands and lots of help for the Dutch to transport their military to the Carribean.
		The Dutch (with NATO aid, ie transport) would have no problem defeating Chavez.
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /political-discussions/37447-dutch-west-indies-crisis.html (723 words)

	vCricket.com - Fastest Live Cricket Score Update with Free Cricket Score Syndication and Cricket News. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Former West Indies Test bowler Ottis Gibson created a little piece of history on Sunday when he took 10 wickets in an innings in an English county championship match.
		West Indies captain Chris Gayle scored an unbeaten 85 as his side just did enough to beat Scotland in the last over of their quadrangular one-day international here Thursday.
		West Indies cruised to a 10-wicket win against the Netherlands at Clontarf here Tuesday in the opening match of the quadrangular one-day series.
	www.vcricket.com /team/WestIndies (380 words)

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