Question

What happened to the Dutch colonies that were attempted in South America?

Answer 1

In 1613 the Dutch tried to establish a colony on the northern coast of South America. Dutch merchants sent 50 families there, at Guiana, to try tobacco farming, but in 1614 the Spanish annihilated them. In 1624, the Dutch launched an attempt to take Brazil from the Portuguese – who were then ruled by a Spanish king. And to the Hudson River area in North America the Dutch sent thirty colonists, mostly French speaking Protestant refugees – Walloons.

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Answer 2

Dutch trading posts and plantations in the Americans precede the much wider known colonization activities of the dutch in Asia.