 | John Lothrop Motley - 1868 - 670 lehte
...Netherlanders being warned off the precincts. Nothing could be more magnificent, nor more vague.35 The charter was for thirty-six years. The company...maintain armies and fleets, to build forts and cities, to carryon war, to make treaties of peace and of commerce. It was a small peripatetic republic of merchants... | |
 | James Rodway - 1888 - 284 lehte
...till the present year. The original which had been granted for thirty-six years, empowered the Company to maintain armies and fleets, to build forts and cities, to carry on war, and to make treaties of peace and commerce. The States General agreed to furnish a million guilders,... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1900 - 526 lehte
...other Netherlander being warned off the precincts. Nothing could be more magnificent, nor more vague.1 The charter was for thirty-six years. The company...of Christendom, — and it was to begin its career full-grown and in full armor. The States-General were to furnish the company at starting with one million... | |
 | National Americana Society - 1922 - 784 lehte
...States General granted the charter of the Dutch West India Company, June 3, 1621. This new organization "was to maintain armies and fleets, to build forts...to make treaties of peace and of commerce. ' ' It also was to control all the trade of Holland "from the tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope, and... | |
 | Oscar Renal Williams - 1998 - 130 lehte
...of the company by licensing it to commission privateers on the high seas in the name of the Crown.2 The company "was to maintain armies and fleets, to...cities, to carry on war, to make treaties of peace and commerce." Most attention was given to the South American territories, but a settlement on the Hudson... | |
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The charter was for thirty-six years. The company was to maintain armies and fleets, to build forts and cities, to carry on war, to make treaties of peace and of commerce. It was a small peripatetic republic of merchants and mariners, evolved out of the... 