Dutch Fortifications Overseas (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Oscar Hefting.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Forts in Comparative, Global, and Contemporary Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Dutch West India Company (WIC) presented their Grand Design in 1621. With enormous investments they intended to establish their power around the Atlantic. The presence, or absence, of an aggressive enemy defined the way of building fortifications. In northeast Brazil, they encountered their arch enemies...