Dutch East in a sentence

Others are descended from Europeans and slaves who were brought to the Cape from Madagascar, Angola, East Africa and the Far East (Batavia) by the Dutch East India Company during the 17th and 18th century.

Born to Japanese men and local Dutch women in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) while it was under Japanese occupation, many in the community are now around 80 years old.

As a plantation colony, Suriname was still heavily dependent on manual labour, and to make up for the shortfall, the Dutch brought in contract labourers from the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia ) and India (through an arrangement with the British).

At least 60,000 of these migrants were Indo-European (mixed Dutch-Indonesian) repatriants that moved on, mostly to the United States, after being repatriated to the Netherlands from the former Dutch East Indies during and after the Indonesian revolution.

He entered the Dutch military service on June 19, 1822, and was appointed as ship's surgeon on the frigate Adriana, sailing from Rotterdam to Batavia (present-day Jakarta ) in the Dutch East Indies (now called Indonesia ).

In 1602 the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC) was founded.

The Dutch East India Company needed skilled farmers at the Cape of Good Hope and the Dutch Government saw opportunities for the Huguenots at the Cape and sent them over.

Javanese make up 14 percent of the population, and like the East Indians, descend largely from workers contracted from the island of Java in the former Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia ).

The British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company had long before been granted similar monopoly rights by their governments.

In 1871, he again became a member and correspondent for the Dutch East Indies.

The same talented actors play the greedy 17th-century Dutch East India Company bigwigs who “purchased” Manhattan and the power-hungry 21st-century investment bankers about to go under.

Quinine was really the only anti-malarial drug at the time, and the Japanese conquered Indonesia, which was the Dutch East Indies at the time, and more or less cornered the market on quinine.

A Dutch East India ship captained by Willem Knyff which ran aground near the Lovu River south of Amanzimtoti on 16 February 1686.

The Levant Trading Company, and later the British and Dutch East India companies, were among early importers of coffee to England.

To the west and south, the fleet still had access to the oil resources of the Dutch East Indies, but lacked facilities for repairing the damage that many ships had taken.

According to Moulton, Hubbard told him that he had been machine-gunned in the back near the Dutch East Indies.

First, it intended to destroy important American fleet units, thereby preventing the Pacific Fleet from interfering with Japanese conquest of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya and to enable Japan to conquer Southeast Asia without interference.

For example, at the time when Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859), Haeckel postulated that evidence of human evolution would be found in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia ).

However, experience of the Japanese occupation of Dutch East Indies varied considerably, depending upon where one lived and one's social position.

In 1949 most of what was known as the Dutch East Indies was ceded to the independent Republic of Indonesia.