Dutch
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the Dutch · our enemies, the Dutch · the subjects of the United Netherlands
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Dutch2 mentions
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) (English)
indeed the Dutch themselves have embarked upon much more desperate enterprises.
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
The people of the United Netherlands on whose behalf the right to trade with the East Indies is argued.
The Portuguese are not sovereigns of those parts of the East Indies to which the Dutch sail, that is to say, Java, Ceylon, and many of the Moluccas.
My intention is to demonstrate briefly and clearly that the Dutch—that is to say, the subjects of the United Netherlands—have the right to sail to the East Indies, as they are now doing, and to engage in trade with the people there.
Twenty years later, during the reign of King Emmanuel, they rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and somewhat later yet, reached Malacca, and the islands beyond, the very islands, indeed, to which the Dutch began to sail in the year 1595, that is, well within a hundred years of the time that the Portuguese first arrived.
Ancient Law
Nation described as instinctively resisting the principle giving enormous advantage from discovery.
Moreover, the principle itself, conferring as it did such enormous advantages as the consequence of a piece of good luck, was instinctively mutinied against by some of the most adventurous nations in Europe, the Dutch, the English, and the Portuguese.