Executions and riots on Dam Square, 1748, Short story of what happened on June 28, 1748 on Dam Square in Amsterdam, which also serves as an interpretation of the picture below (title on object), View of the Dam with the town hall, the Nieuwe Kerk, the Waag and the Damrak, with the shooting by the civil guard into the rows of pushing spectators on the Dam, June 28, 1748. The bodies of the executed man and a woman (Piet van Dort and the lemon and dried plaice seller Mat van den Nieuwendijk) because of their role in the Pachter riot. On the sheet below the plate a description of the events in

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