Jan Pieterszoon Coen
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A famed quote of his from 1618, ''Despair not, spare your enemies not, for God is with us'', illustrates his single-minded ruthlessness, and his unstinting belief in the divinely-sanctioned nature of his project. Using such self-professed divine sanction to violently pursue his ultimate goal of trade monopoly in the East Indies, Dutch soldiers acting on Coen's orders perpetrated numerous wanton acts of destruction in the spice islands of (now) eastern Indonesia, including the infamous Banda Massacre of 1621. The purpose of this was to gain a monopoly upon the supply of nutmeg and mace in order to sustain artificially high prices and profits for the Dutch investors of the VOC. This was deemed by many to be excessive, even for such a relatively violent age. Consequently, since the independence of Indonesia he has been looked at in a more critical light, and historians view his often violent methods to have been excessive. Provided by Wikipedia
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2by Coen, Jan Pieterszoon, 1587-1629
Published 1919
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8by Fuchs, Johannes MariusOther Authors: “...Coen, Jan Pieterszoon, 1587-1629...”
Published 1937
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9by Serière, Guillaume de, 1788-1868Other Authors: “...Coen, Jan Pieterszoon, 1587-1629...”
Published 1826
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10by Wieder, F. C (Frederik Caspar), 1874-1943Other Authors: “...Coen, Jan Pieterszoon, 1587-1629...”
Published 1915
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11by Jourdain, John, -1619Other Authors: “...Coen, Jan Pieterszoon, 1587-1629...”
Published 1905
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