{"id":1145,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-07-22T14:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:12:34","slug":"piet-hein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=1145","title":{"rendered":"Piet Hein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bxIwd5xze8U?si=25UlzOdPfGlG06ta\" width=\"280\" height=\"155\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Boatname-Piet-Hein.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piet_Pieterszoon_Hein\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Piet Pieterszoon Hein<\/span><\/a> (25 November 1577 \u2013 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=\"6px;\"><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=\"6px;\"><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=\"6px;\"><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\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Silvervloot-PH-1628-Cuba.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><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 &#8220;guilders&#8221;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The galleons were so loaded with gold and silver that they had actually blocked many of their gun ports, making it impossible to engage the Dutch privateers in battle.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><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\" class=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/1629-PietHein-A'dam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"198\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><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\" class=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/PH-attacking-British%20boat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"213\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=7855\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piet Pieterszoon Hein (25 November 1577 \u2013 18 June 1629) was a Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years&#8217; War. 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