Today marks the official liberation of the province of Friesland in the Netherlands in WW2 by the Canadian army. Here is a first-hand account of the liberation of the city of Sneek, from the diary of 20 year old To Hofstra.
Het wikipedia artikel over het conflict tussen de VOC en Perzië (1765) is bijzonder slecht geschreven. Wellicht kan een van jullie er een oog op werpen.
Forteiland IJmuiden was built to protect Amsterdam against hostile invasion after it was connected to the North Sea by a canal in 1876 and later became part of the famous Atlantikwall in World War 2 (the Netherlands)