Attack on Saint Martin
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Attack on Saint Martin
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The Attack on Saint Martin was a failed attempt by the Dutch Republic to recapture the island and former base of the Dutch West India Company (WIC) from the Spanish. In 1633 the Spanish had invaded Saint-Martin and Anguilla, driving off the French and Dutch inhabitants. The French and Dutch banded together to repel the Spanish and it was during a 1644 sea battle that the Dutch commander Peter Stuyvesant, later the governor of New Amsterdam, unsuccessfully besieged Fort Amsterdam and was forced t
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1644 naval battle of the Eighty Years' War
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Saint_Martin
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2022-10-12T16:29:35Z
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