Cape Good Hope 1652-1702

 

Inhoudsopgave

Cape Good Hope Volume One Preface

List of illustrations

Typographic Conventions

The Index

The Illustrations

Chapter one The Foundations 1652-1662

[1652] Commonwealth in England. Louis XIV of France for the whole fifty years. Dutch war with Portugal continues. June 30 England declares war on Holland. Background - from official documents in the archives

[1653] Wars with Commonwealth in England and with Portugal continue. Background

1 Johann Jakob Merklein

Background - continued

[1654] Peace with Commonwealth in England April 5, Treaty of Westminster. War with Portugal continues. July 10, English-Portuguese Treaty. Background - from official documents in the archives

2 Johan Nieuhof (Plate 2)

Background - continued

[1655] Commonwealth in England. Dutch war with Portugal continues. Background - from official documents in the archives

3 Etienne de Flacourt (Plate 5)

Background - continued

4 Gijsbert Heeck

Background - continued

[1656] Commonwealth in England. Dutch war with Portugal continues. February, Spain declares war on England. September 5, Anglo-French treaty of friendship. Background

5 Volquardt Iversen (Plate 7)

Background - continued

[1657] Commonwealth in England. Dutch war with Portugal continues. March 23, Teaty of Paris, war England and France against Spain. Background

[1658] Commonwealth in England: death of Cromwell. Dutch war with Portugal continues, also Anglo-French war against Spain. Background

6 Johan Nieuhof

Background - continued

7 Wouter Schouten (Plate 8)

Background - continued

[1659] Commonwealth in England. Dutch war with Portugal continues. November 7 peace between France and Spain. Background - from official documents in the archives

8 Johan Nieuhof

Background - continued

9 Albrecht Herport (Plates 9 & 10)

Background - continued

[1660] May 8, Charles II of England, to 1685. Dutch war with Portugal continues. Background - from official documents in the archives

10 Johan Jacob Saar (Plates 11, 13 & 14)

11 Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (Plates 15 & 16)

Background - continued

[1661] By English mediation peace with Portugal, Ceylon to be Dutch and Brazil Portuguese. Bombay ceded by Portugal to British as dowry. Background - from official documents in the archives

[1662] General peace. Building of Versailles begun. Background

Chapter two Too many Cooks 1663-1679

[1663] Franco-Danish alliance. English alliance with Portugal against Spain. Background - from official documents in the archives

13 Pieter van Hoorn

Background - continued

[1664] French East-India Company established. August 29, English annexed ‘New Netherland’, renamed ‘New England’; and other hostile acts without declaration of war. Background - from official documents in the archives

[1665] State of undeclared war between Dutch and English continues. Great Plague in London. Background

14 Wouter Schouten

Background - continued

[1666] Anglo-Dutch war continues. Quadruple alliance Holland, Brandenburg, Brunswick, Denmark, with France favourable. Great Fire of London. Background - from official documents in the archives

15 The French at Saldanha Bay 1666 (& 1670, 1671) (Plate 20 on pages 104/5)

[1667] Anglo-Dutch war continues until July 31, Peace of Breda: De Ruyter raids Medway. March 31 secret Anglo-French treaty. War between France and Spain in the Netherlands. Background - from official documents in the archives

16 Volquardt Iversen

17 Albrecht Herport

[1668] January Anglo-Dutch alliance against France, joined in April by Sweden. May 2, Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle between France and Spain. Calcutta founded as English post. Bombay handed over to the East-India Company. Background - from official documents in the archives

18 Arnout van Overbeke

Background - continued

19 David Tappen

20 Gerrit Vermeulen

21 Johan Schreyer

Background - continued

[1669] General peace. December 31 secret treaty between France and Brandenburg. Background - from official documents in the archives

22 Nicolaus de Graaff

Background - continued

23 Jean de Lacombe

Background - continued

[1670] General peace. June I secret Anglo-French treaty. Background - from official documents in the archives

24 Frederick Andersen Bolling (Plate 23)

Background - continued

[1671] General peace. Treaty of neutrality between France and the Emperor. Background - from official documents in the archives

25 Johan Nieuhof (Plate 24)

Background - continued

26 Robert Padbrugge

Background - continued

[1672] April 7 England and France declare war on Holland; April 14 Sweden ditto. June, July alliance of Emperor and Brandenburg with Holland. The de Witt brothers assassinated. July 4 William of Orange becomes Stadhouder [to 1702]. Background - from official documents in the archives

27 Johan Christian Hoffmann

28 Nicolaus de Graaff

29 Johan Nieuhof

Background - continued

30 Jan Pietersz. Cortemünde

[1673] England and France at war with Holland. Spain at war with France in Belgium. September 16 the Emperor declares war on France. Background - from official documents in the archives

31 Johan Struys

Background - continued

32 Willem ten Rhyne

Background - continued

[1674] February 9 Second Peace of Westminister between England and Holland. Dutch war with France continues in Belgium. Background - from official documents in the archives

33 Gerrit Vermeulen

Background - continued

[1675] Dutch war with France continues. Background - from official documents in the archives

[1676] Dutch war with France continues. Secret alliance England and France. Denmark at war with Sweden. Background

34 Johan Christian Hoffmann

Background - continued

35 Christophorus Schweitzer (Plate 26)

Background - continued

36 Nicolaus de Graaff

Background - continued

37 Abraham van Riebeeck (Plate 27)

Background - continued

[1677] Dutch war with France continues. November 15 William of Orange marries the English Princess Mary. War between Sweden and Denmark continues. Background - from official documents in the archives

38 Georg Meister

Background - continued

[1678] March Anglo-Dutch defensive alliance. August 10 Treaty of Nymegen, peace between France and Holland. September 17 peace between France and Spain. Continuation of the war between Denmark and Sweden. Background - from official documents in the archives

[1679] February 5 peace between France and the Empire. September 2 between Denmark and Sweden. Background

39 Nicolaus de Graaff

Background - continued

40 Johann Wilhelm Vogel

Background - continued

41 William Pearse

Background - continued

Cape Good Hope Volume Two List of illustrations

Typographic Conventions

The Index

The Illustrations

Chapter three Expansion and Exploration 1680 - 1698

[1680] General peace. Background - from official documents in the archives

[1681] General peace. September Strassburg annexed by French. Background

42 Elias Hesse

Background - continued

43 Christopher Fryke (Plate 29)

Background - continued

[1682] General peace. Background - from official documents in the archives

44 David Tappen

45 Christophorus Schweitzer

Background - continued

[1683] July 30 death of Queen Maria Theresa of France: Louis XIV marries Madame de Maintenon. December, war between France and Spain in the Netherlands. Monmouth exiled to Holland. Background - from official documents in the archives

46 John Preston

Background - continued

47 John Hallwell

Background - continued

48 Elias Hesse

Background - continued

49 Nicolaus de Graaff

Background - continued

50 Jos. Haddock

Background - continued

[1684] Franco-Spanish war continues in Luxemburg. Background - from official documents in the archives

[1685] Franco-Spanish war in Netherlands continues. February 6, death of Charles II of England, James II reigning until 1688. June 11, Monmouths rebellion put down, he beheaded July 15. October 18, Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Background

51 John Tyrell (Plate 31)

Background - continued

52 Christopher Fryke

Background - continued

53 Chevalier de Forbin (Plate 32)

54 François-Timoléon de Choisy

55 Father Guy Tachard (Plates 33 to 43)

56 Chevalier de Chaumont (Plate 44)

Background - continued

[1686] Franco-Spanish war continues in Netherlands. Empire, Holland, Spain etc form the ‘League of Augsburg’; against France. Background - from official documents in the archives

57 Chevalier de Chaumont

58 François-Timoléon de Choisy

59 Father Guy Tachard

Background - continued

60 Captain Ambrose Cowley

Background - continued

61 Philip Leigh

Background - continued

[1687] War continues between France and the League of Augsberg. Background - from official documents in the archives

62 Nicolaus de Graaff

Background - continued

63 Simon de la Loubère (Plates 46 & 47)

64 Father Guy Tachard (Plates 48, 49 & 50)

65 Masurier

66 (Father Marcel le Blanc)

Background - continued

[1688] War continues between France and the ‘League of Augsburg’. September 24 France declares war against the Empire. November 15 William of Orange lands in England. November 26 France declares war against Holland: start of the ‘Nine Years' War’. Background - from official documents in the archives

67 Johann Wilhelm Vogel

68 Georg Meister (Plates 52, 53 & 54)

69 Simon de la Loubère

70 Father Guy Tachard

Background - continued

[1689] England and Holland join the ‘League of Augsburg’. The ‘Nine-Years' War’ continues. Background - from official documents in the archives

71 Father Marcel le Blanc

Background - continued

72 John Bonnell

Background - continued

[1690] The ‘Nine Years' War’ continues. Spain joins the ‘Great alliance’. Calcutta established. Background - from official documents in the archives

73 (Abraham du Quesne-Guiton)

[1691] The ‘Nine Years' War’ continues. The New English East-India Company formed. Background - from official documents in the archives

74 François Leguat (Plate 55)

Background - continued

75 William Dampier (Plates 56 & 57)

Background - continued

76 ‘Dr. Browne’

[1692] ‘Nine Years' War’ continues. English victory over French off La Hogue. Background - from official documents in the archives

77 Robert Everard

[1693] ‘Nine Years' War’ continues. Background - from official documents in the archives

78 John Ovington (Plate 58)

Background - continued

[1694] ‘Nine Years' War’ continues. Background - from official documents in the archives

79 Christoffel Langhansz

Background - continued

[1695] ‘Nine Years' War’ continues. Background - from official documents in the archives

[1696] ‘Nine Years' War’ continues. Fort William built at Calcutta. Background

80 John Dorrill

81 Thomas South

82 George Phenney

Background - continued

83 William Erle

Background - continued

[1697] War ended by Treaty of Ryswyck. Background - from official documents in the archives

84 Richard Laycock

Background - continued

[1698] General peace. Charter given to the English ‘New East-India Company’. Background - from official documents in the archives

85 François Leguat (Plates 59, 60 & 61)

Background - continued

86 John Dorrill

87 William Gyfford

Background - continued

88 William Erle

Background - continued

Chapter four Greed and Graft 1699-1702

[1699] General Peace. Background-from official documents in the archives

89 Robert Betton

Background - continued

90 John Merry

Background - continued

91 Charles Hill

92 John Browne

93 Caleb Grantham

Background - continued

94 Henry Hammond

Background - continued

95 Sir William Norris

96 Robert Hudson

Background - continued

97 Martin Wintergerst

98 Charles Coatsworth

Background - continued

[1700] General peace. Adoption of New Style* by the German Protestant States. Background - from official documents in the archives

99 Matthew Lowth

Background - continued

September 17, Alliance of England, Holland and the Emperor. background - continued

100 William Dampier

Background - continued

101 Anonymous [Loyal Bliss]

Background - continued

[1702] Acession of Queen Anne (to 1714). May 4 England, Holland and the Empire declare war on France, ‘War of Spanish Succession’ (to 1713). Background - from official documents in the archives

102 Benjamin Boucher

103 - Luillier

Background - continued

104 Abraham Bogaert (Plates 64 & 65)

Background - continued

Index