[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
2/1 ... today at noon the first foundation-stone was laid by the Commandeur Wagenaer [of one bastion of new Fort*, other senior officials laying the other four]
25/8 ... Towards noon ... came to anchor ... the long-awaited ship Dordrecht ... with the Hon. Commandeur Cornelis VAN QUAELBERGE to replace the Hon. Commandeur Wagenaer [who sailed September 29 in her] ... left Texel December 19 with 294 souls ... 112 men died on the journey ... now all but 8 or 10 men lying sick ...
26/8 ... over a hundred sick, which could not all be put into the hospital but were laid ... in the Market-hall [‘passer’]
[31/8, 1/9 see in item 15]
24/9 Wagenaer's Memorial for Quaelbergen ..of the five...redoubts which Commandeur van Riebeeck formerly erected, two have been demolished ... since they seemed about to fall, viz. Koorenhoop and Hout den Bul: the other three ... much dilapidated ... now 16 freemenburghers in the Town* ...
[Then see in item 15 to 30/12]
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