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After the death of Pieter Paulus the most influential man in an Assembly composed of politicians mostly without any parliamentary experience was the eloquent and astute Schimmelpenninck, whose opportunist moderation sprang from a natural dislike of extreme courses. One of the first cares of the Assembly was the appointment of the Commission of twenty-one members to draw up a draft Constitution.
Pieter Retief caught sight of me being helped out of the cart by my father and Hans, whom I had brought to load, and for a moment looked puzzled. Evidently his thoughts were far away. Then he remembered and exclaimed in his jolly voice: "Why! here is our little Englishman come to shoot off his match like a man of his word.
At the same time, he opposed the projected marriage of the count's daughter with King Edward's eldest son. In July 1302 a terrible rising, known as "Matines brugeoises" and led by the weaver Pieter de Coninck, broke out in Bruges, when all the French in the town were murdered in the early hours of the morning.
The corps to which I attached myself and which dubbed itself the Somerset East Mounted Rifles consisted of one hundred and seven men under the command of Major Henderson, divided into two troops of fifty men each the right troop under the command of "Captain" Henry Jackson, and the left troop under the command of "Captain" Pieter Van Rhyn, with a sergeant in command of each of the two squadrons which composed a troop.
"What news?" cried the people in the market-place, recognising him. "Mechlin! Mechlin!" he gasped. "I come from Mechlin." "What of Mechlin and its citizens?" asked Pieter van de Werff, stepping forward. "Don Frederic has taken it; the Spaniards have butchered them; everyone, old and young, men, women, and children, they are all butchered.
With a new or full moon it makes high water at Newcastle at five o'clock. The principal persons whom we have seen are Mr. Moll and his wife, Ephraim Hermans and his wife, Pieter Aldrix and his wife, and Domine Tessemaker. As regards Mr. Moll, he lived in his youth at Amsterdam, in order to learn business.
In 1623 Koen was succeeded, as governor-general, by Pieter Carpentier, whose name is still perpetuated by the Gulf of Carpentaria on the north of Australia. At this time of transition the Governor of Amboina, Van Speult, professed to have discovered a conspiracy of the English settlers, headed by Gabriel Towerson, to make themselves masters of the Dutch fort.
This was the turning point of the fight, for though after it one other Kaffir managed to get into the laager, where he was cut down, and two Boers, Nicholas Potgieter and Pieter Botha were killed by assegais thrown from without, from that moment the attack began to slacken.
Koen thereupon fell upon the English and destroyed and burnt their factory, and finding that there was a strong English fleet under Sir Thomas Dale in the neighbourhood, he sailed to the Moluccas in search of reinforcements, leaving Pieter van der Broeck in command at the factory.
<b>PETERS, ANNA.</b> Medals at Vienna, 1873; London, 1874; Munich, 1876; Amsterdam and Antwerp, 1877. Born at Mannheim, 1843. Pupil of her father, Pieter Francis Peters, in Stuttgart. Miss Peters travelled over Europe and was commissioned to decorate apartments in the royal castles at Stuttgart and Friedrichshafen.
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