Mauritsstad (or Mauritius ) was the capital of Dutch Brazil , and is now a part of the Brazilian city of Recife .
6-444: A Dutch fleet of 65 ships led by Hendrick Corneliszoon Loncq led a siege against Portuguese Brazil in 1630 . The Dutch West India Company gained control of Olinda by 16 February 1630, and both Recife and the island of António Vaz (opposite Recife) by 3 March 1630. The city of Mauritsstad was built on António Vaz and was designed by architect Pieter Post . It was named after Governor Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen , who had founded
12-596: A Dutch colonizing expedition of 52 ships, 15 sloops, and 3,780 sailors that captured the historic city of Olinda , Brazil on 14 February, followed by the capture of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco after a feeble resistance by Matias de Albuquerque , its Portuguese Governor. It was to be his last voyage, returning to the Netherlands on 20 July 1630. He died in Amsterdam and was buried on 10 October 1634 in
18-658: The city and the adjoining palace Vrijburgh . Mauritsstad was the cultural center of the New World, with the first botanical garden and the first zoo in the Americas , and a museum with three hundred stuffed monkeys. The city's Jewish population constructed the first synagogue in the Americas . The city was eventually recaptured by the Portuguese in 1654. Fort Frederik Hendrik ( Forte de São Tiago das Cinco Pontas )
24-739: The expedition of Admiral Willem de Zoete against the Barbary Coast pirates. Having made admiral by 1628, Lonck, in the service of the Dutch West Indies Company , joined Admiral Piet Hein in the Battle in the Bay of Matanzas , a naval battle during the Eighty Years' War in which a Dutch squadron was able to defeat and capture a Spanish treasure fleet . Lonck replaced Hein in 1629 as captain-general. In 1630, he commanded
30-607: Was a pentagonal fortress built near Mauritsstad in 1630 that was demolished by the Portuguese in 1677. Hendrick Lonck Adm. Hendrick Corneliszoon Lonck (or Loncque and Loncq ) (born 1568, Roosendaal – 10 October 1634, Amsterdam ), a Dutch naval hero, was the first Dutch sea captain to reach the New World . He was born in Roosendaal in the southern Netherlands , of Brabant origin. His parents were Cornelis Pieterszoon Lonck and Dichna Heinrich. He
36-714: Was a full cousin of the Zeeland Vice Admiral Cornelis Symons Son Loncque. In 1604, he married Grietgen Lenaerts in Antwerp . In 1606, Lonck captained the Witte Leeuw (White Lion), a 320-ton merchant ship armed for war, and approached the Gulf of St. Lawrence . Near Tadoussac , he boarded two of Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons ' ships, pillaging them for cannons, furs, mounts, and munitions. In 1623 and 1624, Lonck participated in
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