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Sunday, May 15, 2005

More about Hendrick Janszoon Loncque

I have translated a bit more about Hendrick Loncque (or Loncq) from Charles Boxer's book about the Dutch in Brazil:

"Thanks to a large number of prints and paintings from these years, we know how piet Heyn, Hendrick Loncq and many other Dutch who took part in the fight for Brazil looked. The Portuguese art is in this respect is very sparse, so that Fr. Vicente's pen sketches of Albuquerque [Mathias de Albuquerque] are all the more welcome."

We now jump ahead to the next mention of Hendrick Loncq in February 1630.

"The Dutch attacked at two different places. Whereas Loncque, with the largest part of the fleet, tried force the access to the port of Recief, Waerenburgh with the greater part of the troops landed at Pau Amarello, ten kilometres at north of Olinda. "

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