Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Dutch admiral (born 1577)

Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Dutch admiral (1577–1629)

Piet Pieterszoon Hein was a Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War. 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. The…