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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 the Iberian Union in Africa and the Americas, in order that the Spanish would not collect enough money for their war against the Netherlands.[1]

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  1. 39 relations: Arguin, Atlantic slave trade, Bankruptcy, Battle in the Bay of Matanzas, Battle of Elmina (1625), Battle of Elmina (1637), Battle of Tabocas, Capture of Bahia, Cornelis Jol, Dutch Brazil, Dutch East India Company, Dutch Gold Coast, Dutch guilder, Dutch Loango-Angola, Dutch Republic, Dutch West India Company, Dutch–Portuguese War, Filips van Zuylen, First Battle of Guararapes, Gold Coast (region), Gorée, Hendrick Lonck, Iberian Union, Jacob Willekens, List of islands of Cape Verde, Luanda, Malaria, Olinda, Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Portuguese Angola, Recapture of Angola, Recapture of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Second Battle of Guararapes, Senegambia (Dutch West India Company), Siege of Recife (1630), Siege of Salvador (1638), States General of the Netherlands, Twelve Years' Truce.

  2. 17th century in the Dutch Empire
  3. Dutch West India Company
  4. Slavery in Brazil
  5. Slavery in the Netherlands

Arguin

Arguin (أرغين, Arguim) is an island off the western coast of Mauritania in the Bay of Arguin.

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Atlantic slave trade

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. Groot Desseyn and Atlantic slave trade are African slave trade.

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Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy is a legal process through which people or other entities who cannot repay debts to creditors may seek relief from some or all of their debts.

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Battle in the Bay of Matanzas

The Battle in the Bay of Matanzas was a naval battle in Cuba during the Eighty Years' War in which a Dutch squadron was able to defeat and capture a Spanish treasure fleet.

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Battle of Elmina (1625)

The Battle of Elmina was a military engagement of the Dutch-Portuguese War, fought near the castle of São Jorge da Mina (Elmina Castle)Dann, Seaton, p.34Rodriguez, p.236 in the Portuguese Gold Coast in 1625.

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Battle of Elmina (1637)

The Battle of Elmina in 1637 was a military engagement between the Portuguese and the Dutch that culminated with the capture of the historical St. George of Elmina Fort by the latter.

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Battle of Tabocas

The Battle of Tabocas, also known as the Battle of Mount Tabocas, was fought between the Dutch and the Portuguese army.

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Capture of Bahia

The capture of Salvador was a military engagement between Portugal (at that time, united with Spain in the Iberian Union) and the Dutch West India Company, that occurred in 1624, and ended in the capture of the Brazilian city of Salvador by the latter.

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Cornelis Jol

Cornelis Corneliszoon Jol (1597 – 31 October 1641), nicknamed Houtebeen ("pegleg"), was a 17th-century Dutch corsair and admiral in the Dutch West India Company during the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch Republic.

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Dutch Brazil

Dutch Brazil (Nederlands-Brazilië), also known as New Holland (Nieuw-Holland), was a colony of the Dutch Republic in the northeastern portion of modern-day Brazil, controlled from 1630 to 1654 during Dutch colonization of the Americas. Groot Desseyn and Dutch Brazil are 17th century in the Dutch Empire.

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Dutch East India Company

The United East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, abbreviated as VOC), commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world.

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Dutch Gold Coast

The Dutch Gold Coast or Dutch Guinea, officially Dutch possessions on the Coast of Guinea (Dutch: Nederlandse Bezittingen ter Kuste van Guinea) was a portion of contemporary Ghana that was gradually colonized by the Dutch, beginning in 1612. Groot Desseyn and Dutch Gold Coast are Dutch West India Company.

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Dutch guilder

The guilder (gulden) or florin was the currency of the Netherlands from 1434 until 2002, when it was replaced by the euro.

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Dutch Loango-Angola

Loango-Angola is the name for the possessions of the Dutch West India Company in contemporary Angola and the Republic of the Congo. Groot Desseyn and Dutch Loango-Angola are Dutch West India Company.

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Dutch Republic

The United Provinces of the Netherlands, officially the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) and commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.

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Dutch West India Company

The Dutch West India Company or WIC (Westindische Compagnie) was a chartered company of Dutch merchants as well as foreign investors, formally known as GWC (Geoctrooieerde Westindische Compagnie; Chartered West India Company).

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Dutch–Portuguese War

The Dutch–Portuguese War was a global armed conflict involving Dutch forces, in the form of the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch West India Company, and their allies, against the Iberian Union, and after 1640, the Portuguese Empire. Groot Desseyn and Dutch–Portuguese War are 17th century in the Dutch Empire.

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Filips van Zuylen

Filips van Zuylen was a Dutch corsair active in the 1620s.

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First Battle of Guararapes

The First Battle of Guararapes took place during the Insurrection of Pernambuco, between Dutch and Portuguese forces in Pernambuco, in a dispute for the dominion of that part of the Portuguese colony of Brazil.

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Gold Coast (region)

The Gold Coast was the name for a region on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa that was rich in gold, petroleum, sweet crude oil and natural gas.

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Gorée

italic ("Gorée Island"; Beer Dun) is one of the 19 communes d'arrondissement (i.e. districts) of the city of Dakar, Senegal.

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Hendrick Lonck

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Iberian Union

The Iberian Union is a historiographical term used to describe the dynastic union of the Monarchy of Spain, which in turn was itself a personal union of the crowns of Castile and Aragon, and the Kingdom of Portugal, and of their respective colonial empires, that existed between 1580 and 1640 and brought the entire Iberian Peninsula except Andorra, as well as Portuguese and Spanish overseas possessions, under the Spanish Habsburg monarchs Philip II, Philip III, and Philip IV.

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Jacob Willekens

Jacob Willekens or Wilckens (1564–1649) was a Dutch admiral on a fleet to the Dutch Indies, and a herring seller, who went to sea again at the age of fifty for the Dutch West Indies Company.

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List of islands of Cape Verde

The archipelago of Cape Verde consists of 10 islands and several islets, divided into two groups.

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Luanda

Luanda (/luˈændə, -ˈɑːn-/, Portuguese) is the capital and largest city of Angola.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.

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Olinda

Olinda is a historic city in Pernambuco, Brazil, in the Northeast Region. It is located on the country's northeastern Atlantic Ocean coast, in the Metropolitan Region of Recife, the state capital. It has a population of 393,115 people, covers, and has a population density of. It is noted as one of the best-preserved colonial cities in Brazil and has been inhabited since 1535.

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Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Piet Pieterszoon Hein (25 November 1577 – 18 June 1629) was a Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War.

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Portuguese Angola

In southwestern Africa, Portuguese Angola was a historical colony of the Portuguese Empire (1575–1951), the overseas province Portuguese West Africa of Estado Novo Portugal (1951–1972), and the State of Angola of the Portuguese Empire (1972–1975).

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Recapture of Angola

The Recapture of Angola, or Reconquest of Angola, was a military campaign fought between the Portuguese and the Dutch occupiers of Angola.

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Recapture of Bahia

The recapture of Bahia (Jornada del Brasil; Jornada dos Vassalos) was a Spanish–Portuguese military expedition in 1625 to retake the city of Bahia (now Salvador) in Brazil from the forces of the Dutch West India Company (WIC).

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Salvador, Bahia

Salvador is a Brazilian municipality and capital city of the state of Bahia.

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Second Battle of Guararapes

The Second Battle of Guararapes was the second and decisive battle in the Insurrection of Pernambuco between Dutch and Portuguese forces in February 1649 at Jaboatão dos Guararapes in Pernambuco.

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Senegambia (Dutch West India Company)

Senegambia, also known in Dutch as Bovenkust ("Upper Coast"), was the collective noun for the fortifications and trading posts owned by the Dutch West India Company (DWIC) in the region now known as Senegal. Groot Desseyn and Senegambia (Dutch West India Company) are Dutch West India Company.

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Siege of Recife (1630)

The Siege of Recife was a battle between Dutch and Portuguese forces near modern-day Recife, Brazil in 1630.

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Siege of Salvador (1638)

The siege of Salvador was a siege that took place between April and May 1638, during the Dutch–Portuguese War and Eighty Years' War.

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States General of the Netherlands

The States General of the Netherlands (Staten-Generaal) is the supreme bicameral legislature of the Netherlands consisting of the Senate (Eerste Kamer) and the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer).

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Twelve Years' Truce

The Twelve Years' Truce was a ceasefire during the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch Republic, agreed in Antwerp on 9 April 1609 and ended on 9 April 1621.

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See also

17th century in the Dutch Empire

Dutch West India Company

Slavery in Brazil

Slavery in the Netherlands

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groot_Desseyn