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In the short engagement, the Germans fired at least five 10.5 cm (4.13 in) shells at the petroleum tanks. None hit their target but the sound of the explosions woke up the sleeping Dutch coastal artillery detachment on the island. They rushed to their two 120 mm (4.7 in) naval gun battery that protected the tanks and opened fire.
The 1969 Curaçao uprising (Papiamento: Trinta di Mei, ' Thirtieth of May ') was a series of riots on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, then part of the Netherlands Antilles, a semi-independent country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The uprising took place mainly on 30 May but continued into the night of 31 May – 1 June 1969.
The ABC islands is the physical group of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, the three westernmost islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.These islands have a shared political history and a status of Dutch underlying ownership, since the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 ceded them back to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as Curaçao and Dependencies from 1815.
From 1525, the island was featured on Spanish maps as Curaçote, Curasaote, Curasaore, and even Curacaute. [18] By the 17th century, it appeared on most maps as Curaçao or Curazao. [ 17 ] On a map created by Hieronymus Cock in 1562 in Antwerp , the island was called Qúracao .
An aerial map of the Conway Bombing and Gunnery Range sites and the projects undertaken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to identify potential risks and clean-up the WWII era range.
The attack on Aruba was an attack on oil installations and tankers by Axis submarines during World War II.On 16 February 1942, a German U-boat attacked the small Dutch island of Aruba.
They plundered weapons, ammunition and the treasury of the island. [11] They also managed to capture the Governor of the island, Leonardus Albertus Fruytier, and hauled him off to Venezuela on the stolen American ship Maracaibo. [10] Following the raid the Dutch government decided to permanently station marines and ships on the island. [11] [12]
Shortly thereafter, on 3 March 1951, the Island Regulation of the Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Eilandenregeling Nederlandse Antillen or ERNA; Papiamento: Regulashon Insular delas Antias Hulandes or RIAH) was issued by royal decree, giving fairly substantial autonomy to the various island territories in the Netherlands Antilles. A consolidated ...