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To: marron
Just finished a book about the Dutch wars in Brazil.

Cool! Care to name it?
7 posted on 03/15/2022 9:13:05 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Antoninus

It’s in Portuguese… “Arrancados da Terra”…

It covers the expulsion of the Jews from Portugal, their settling in Holland, and from there the establishment of Dutch colonies in Brazil and the wars that ensued. All intertwined. Ending with the first Jewish contingent arriving in New York, Dutch New Amsterdam, when Dutch Brazil was finally retaken by the Portuguese. It’s a history I’ve known essentially nothing about.

I knew from this book that the Dutch had briefly seized Angola, I did not know about the battle in the Philippines.


8 posted on 03/15/2022 10:19:27 AM PDT by marron
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