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Tuesday, 28 February 2023

French captured 17 (Dutch) Greenland whalers according to the Dutch newspaper Amsterdamse courant dated 11 September 1703

An item dated Amsterdam, Netherlands 10 September reported the arrival of some German Greenland whalers uit Bremen, Germany reporting that the French captured 17 whalers but since they received no new details.

Note

1. The Dutch Republic and France were enemies during the War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1713. 

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