Welcome to my History Pages, offering some snippets from - mainly - the Dutch history of the Netherlands' aptly-called Golden Century. As you can see, many of the pages are not done yet ... but any suggestions, hints or comments - favourable or otherwise - would be welcomed by contacting me at the above e-mail button. Similar pages by fellow enthusiasts can be accessed from André Engels' excellent Discoverers Web (recommended!) And if you were wondering ... jawel jôh, 'k ben een deeltèds Hagenaar ...!

Link to the Bob Evers webpages!
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Available so far:

• El Dorado - a persistent Legend (frames-capable browser required)
• The Voyage around the World of the Nassau Fleet, 1623-1626 (frames)
• Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este & Sophie Chotek (frames)

• If ... Rudyard Kipling's seminal poem.
• The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred, Lord Tennyson's pæan to cavalrymen.
• Iron Curtain speech Winston Churchill's speech, delivered at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, on 5th March,1946.

Future titles

• Pieter Schouten's raid in the Caribbean, 1623-1624
• Piet Heyn's African Expedition, 1624
• Zeeland's settlements in Amazonia, 1620s
• Piet Heyn captures the Silver Fleet, 1628
• Cornelis Jol - a neglected hero
• Buccaneers and Filibusters
• The New Holland colony, 1624-1654 (part of Portuguese Brazil)
• The New Netherland colony, 1616-1674 (present-day New York)