History 2188A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Piet Pieterszoon Hein, French West Indies, John Gow
19 Apr 2017
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He was bound and chained and placed in an iron cage. The golden age: three main periods, buccaneering (1650s-1680s): french sailors in jamaica attack spanish colonies in the. The dutch/ netherlands/ holland (main protagonists for the spanish) French who begin to pose a bigger threat. Spanish fleet was eventually forced to surrender in matanzas in 1628. Battle of matanzas, cuba september, 1628 plunder= est. Spain"s policy was to depopulate hispagnola and some of the smaller islands and relocate and resettle. Spanoish colonists where you can control them and keep a close eye on them. Without settlers and farmers livestock and cattle roam free however they become good source of food and leather (they would use to that to trade with any smugglers. It eventually becomes the largest pirate haven on the spanish main during the 17th century: there were major expeditions by the spanish during 1635 and 1638.
