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  • The Spanish retreat, in October 1573, coincided with a naval defeat off Enkhuizen.

    Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915

  • Humanistic studies in Enkhuizen, he studied medicine at Utrecht,

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • Between Hoorn and Enkhuizen the fleet of Bossu on the

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

  • North Quarter (Enkhuizen and Hoorn) -- though separately administered and with different spheres, became gradually more and more unified by the growing power of control exercised by the Seventeen.

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

  • Council of Admiralty into three Chambers, shortly afterwards increased to five -- Rotterdam, Hoorn with Enkhuizen, Veere, Amsterdam and Harlingen with Dokkum.

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

  • His attempts to overthrow the supremacy of the "regents" in Amsterdam, Leyden, Enkhuizen and other towns were complete failures.

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

  • Enkhuizen, Hoorn and other towns on the Zuyder Zee; and Zaandam was soon to become a centre of the timber trade.

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

  • The seaward half, or that portion lying north-west of a line drawn from Enkhuizen to Stavoren, is believed to have been converted from a marsh to an open bay since the fifth century after Christ, and this change is ascribed, partly if not wholly, to the interference of man with the order of nature.

    Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 04 (historical) 1874

  • They were so convinced by this report that the sea route to China was actually discovered, that they immediately made arrangements to send out the following year a flotilla of seven vessels, two from Amsterdam, two from Zeeland, two from Enkhuizen, and one from Rotterdam, with a view to open the new commercial communication.

    The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

  • Born in 1563 at Haarlem, died in 1611 at Enkhuizen.

    The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

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