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1628-1631 Cuba with a view of the Dutch Fleet & the Spanish Silver Fleet: Abbildung / Welcher Gestalt die Spanische Silberflota von dem / Hollandischen General Peter Peters Hayn an der Insul Cuba / in der Baya Patanca Anno 1628. Das Eylandt Cuba Mit Deroselben Gelegenheit Original copperplate printed
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This is a scarce engraving that depicts the Dutch and Spanish fleets at Patanca Bay in Cuba. In 1628, the Dutch under the command of General Pieter Pieters Hayn and Admiral Hendrick Cornelius Long surprised the Spanish Silver Fleet at Patanca Bay. The Dutch are shown in the foreground of the map, with the Spanish trapped further in the Bay. The Spanish had been gathering in Patanca Bay to begin their long voyage across the Atlantic to Spain, after having rendezvoused in Cuba with the riches from the numerous silver mines within the Spanish New World possessions. The Dutch were able to seize the tremendous wealth that these Spanish ships contained. This view succinctly captures the world-wide struggle that was underway during this period for economic dominance among the Spanish, Dutch, French, British and other European powers. "Perhaps no success ever made so great a sensation in Holland as the capture of the Spanish Silver Fleet at Matanca by P. Heyn in 1628". (Muller, Catalog, 1872, p. 100). This capture of the Silver Fleet not only enriched Holland but inspired the Dutch West India Company and provided needed funds for the Dutch Colony in New Netherlands and New Amsterdam (New York City). The portraits for Hayn and Long are set within the sheet at the left and right sides respectively. An early map of Cuba, with north at the bottom, is at the left. The map identifies Havana and numerous other place names in Cuba. A detailed legend indicating the various ships and ship captains involved in the battle is across the bottom. The map was first published as a broadsheet to record this famous event. The map also appeared in De Bry's Grand Voyages as published by Merian in Frankfurt. Reference: Cueto, Cuba in Old Maps, #26. Very Fine Condition.
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