A secret map of Ireland's coastline played a crucial role in taking down a powerful alliance of pirates that had based itself in the southwest of Ireland in the 17th century.

Some Indian mining and cement companies have approached Dutch shipbuilder Royal IHC for technical assistance as they prepare to bid for deep-sea mineral blocks up for auction, two sources with direct ...

Latest maps from WXCHARTS show a flurry of snow coating ... with a small part of North Wales also seeing some snow. In the east of England, there will be rain rather than snow with much of this ...

Yester House in East Lothian was owned by the Hay family ... later 1st Earl of Tweedale (1595-1654), attributed to the Dutch painter Adam de Colone (1572-1651). The painting, dating from 1628 ...

Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was imploring the Palestinian leader to accept a deal he believed could have brought peace to the Middle East ... West Bank. The map Olmert had drawn up ...

This is the reason, which led the Dutch, to arrive in Batticaloa, the very moment after they incorporated the Dutch East India Trading Company as mentioned above. From 1602 to 1706, a hundred years ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Royal Netherlands Navy submarine once patrolled the waters of Indonesia, then the colonial Dutch East Indies, and in 1942 rescued 13 survivors of an Australian ship that had been sunk by Japanese ...

It included the Dutch East Indies, New Guinea, Papua, New Britain, New Ireland and the northern Solomon Islands. The beginning and end dates of the individual honour are amended to denote the period ...

or what is in effect the transference of a considerable amount of capital by the Dutch Government to this City, and the probable opening of a new and important branch of trade. View Full Article ...

His current research focuses on the history of the establishment of the Reformed church in the East Indies during the time of the Dutch East India Company.