Hendrik Brouwer or Enrique Brower (1581 - August 7, 1643) was a Dutch sea explorer and corsair, who sailed against Spain during the Dutch War of Independence, raiding the Spanish Main during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Events 322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Corsairs were French Privateers from the north-western French port of St-Malo, located on the northern coast of Brittany. The Dutch Revolt, Eighty Years' War or the Revolt of the Netherlands (1568—1648 was the revolt of the Seventeen Provinces in the Low Countries The Spanish Main was the mainland coast of the Spanish Empire around the Caribbean.

In 1600 he occupied the Spanish city of Castro, Chile for a brief time, shortly after fellow corsair Baltazar de Cordes held the city captive for two months the same year [1]. Castro is a city and comune in the Chilean island of Chiloé Island. Baltazar de Cordes ( 1500s &ndash 1600s) the brother of Simon de Cordez, was a Dutch Corsair who fought against the Spanish during the early

In 1611, Brouwer devised the Brouwer Route, a route from South Africa to Java that greatly reduced voyage duration by taking advantage of the strong westerly winds in the Roaring Forties. The Brouwer Route was a route for sailing from the Cape of Good Hope to Java. The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Java (Jawa is an Island of Indonesia and the site of its Capital city Jakarta. The Roaring Forties is a name given especially by sailors to the latitudes between 40°S and 50°S so called because of the boisterous and prevailing westerly winds

From 1632 to 1636 he was governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. The Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies represented the Dutch rule in the Dutch East Indies between 1610 and Dutch recognition of the independence of Indonesia See http//enwikipediaorg/wiki/WikipediaFootnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the tags and the template below

In 1643, he left his charge as governor to personally lead attacks on the Viceroyalty of Peru. Created in 1542 the Viceroyalty of Peru (in Spanish, Virreinato del Perú) was a Spanish colonial administrative district that originally contained most of Spanish-ruled According to the plans they would first establish a base on the abandoned ruins of Valdivia, Chile. Valdivia is a city and commune in southern Chile administered by the Municipality of Valdivia The fleet sailed from the Dutch occupied Brazil were John Maurice of Nassau was governor, he provided him with supplies and ships. John Maurice of Nassau (Dutch Johan Maurits, German Johann Moritz, 17 June 1604 – 20 December 1679) was count Unfortunately Hendrik died before arriving at Valdivia, but Maurice of Nassau had foreseen that as Brouwer was an old man, and secretly by a letter appointed Elias Herckman as successor. Herckman occupied the ruins of Valdivia for less than one year before leaving.

External links & further reading

• (Dutch) A short biograpy
• Zaragoza, Justo and Dionisio de Alsedo y Herrera. Piraterías y agresiones de los ingleses y de otros pueblos de Europa en la América Española. Impr. de M. G. Hernández, 1883.

Preceded by Jacques Specx

Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1632–1636

Succeeded by Anthony van Diemen

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