Abstract

In the early morning hours of 25 February 1603, the Dutch commander Jacob van Heemskerck (1567-1607) attacked a richly laden Portuguese carrack at the entrance of Singapore Straits. Van Heemskerck's seizure of the Santa Catarina has been a famous episode in Dutch history ever since. This chapter corrects the imbalance in Hugo Grotius scholarship. It compares and contrasts Van Heemskerck's voyage to the East Indies (1601-1604) with its conceptualization in De Jure Praedae. The capture of the richly laden Santa Catarina was literally a godsend for Van Heemskerck, whose voyage to the East Indies had been dogged by bad luck right from the start. Grotius' innovations in legal theory and practice were still far in the future, however, when the Alkmaar and White Lion anchored off Pulau Tiuman in order to intercept the Japan carrack.Keywords: Alkmaar; De Jure Praedae; East Indies; Hugo Grotius; Jacob van Heemskerck; Pulau Tiuman; Santa Catarina; Singapore Straits

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