{"id":1145,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"piet-hein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=1145","title":{"rendered":"Piet Hein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 136);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Piet Hein<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"280\" height=\"155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bxIwd5xze8U?si=25UlzOdPfGlG06ta\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Boatname-Piet-Hein.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piet_Pieterszoon_Hein\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Piet Pieterszoon Hein<\/span><\/a> (25 November 1577 &ndash; 18 June 1629) was a Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years&#8217; War.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Hein was the first and the last to capture a large part of a Spanish treasure fleet which transported huge amounts of gold and silver from Spanish America to Spain.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The amount of silver taken was so large that it caused a rise of the silver price worldwide, and near bankruptcy of Spain.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Conquest of the silver fleet in the Bay of Matanzas by Admiraal Piet Heyn, in 1628:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Silvervloot-PH-1628-Cuba.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"146\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Piet Hein&#8217;s attack on Matanzas bay, Cuba was the most spectacular success against the Spanish foe, where Hein robbed from them gold, silver, and other goods worth more than 12 million &quot;guilders&quot;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The galleons were so loaded with gold and silver that they had actually blocked many of their own gun ports, making it impossible to properly engage the Dutch privateers in battle.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">He would go on to return to the Netherlands as a marauding hero with 15 captured Spanish ships added to his fleet. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/1629-PietHein-A'dam.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"173\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Following this success, Hein headed out to confront English pirates in 1629, and was hit in the shoulder by a cannonball, blown apart, and died instantly:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/PH-attacking-British%20boat.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"159\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piet Hein Piet Pieterszoon Hein (25 November 1577 &ndash; 18 June 1629) was a Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years&#8217; War. 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