Portrait of Lt. Admiral Pieter Pietersz Hein by Paulus Moreelse, 1629. Pieter Pietersen Heyn (Hein) (1577 – 1629) Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War between the United Provinces and Spain. Hein was the first and the last to capture such a large part of a Spanish 'silver fleet' from America.

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