Fly over Galle, a beautifully preserved Dutch colonial fort city on Sri Lanka’s southern coast, where red-tiled rooftops, stone ramparts, and crashing waves create stunning aerial vistas ...

From Fort Worth, this copilot of a B-17 that was shot down is remembered on the Walls of the Missing at the Netherlands American Cemetery.

First Foreign Salute to the American Flag; The Dutch of St. Eustatius, West Indies, Who Supplied Much of Washington's War Material, Honored "Old Glory" Nov. 16, 1776. Share full article Feb. 11, 1906 ...

Then the Dutch defeated the British and took the fort from their hands," he said. Never reoccupied, Fort Amsterdam remained as a ruin until its 1951 restoration by the Ghana Museums and Monuments ...

The fort's strategic location made it a vital point of defense and trade. It was established by the Portuguese in 1588, fortified by the Dutch in the 17th century, and then captured by the British in ...

Building it up: Galle’s British and Dutch colonial architecture exhibit similar order and symmetry. The Dutch, adept in masonry, favoured stone and brick over the British wooden bungalows.

A: The flag is 20 meters long and 13 meters high. The weight of the flag (the cloth) is light, approximately 15 kg. The ballast weight makes up for the largest part of the total weight at 520kg.

Authorities from the Netherlands were sent to the Bahamas to investigate a fatal accident on board a Holland America Line cruise ship late last week. The accident in the engineering space of the Nieuw ...

“Fort’s oldest Cafe” Just a door from the 1873 is Galle Fort’s oldest cafe. The proprietor, Charith said that his family has been running the establishment for three generations. Unlike other vintage ...

This Church, which is currently known as the Dutch Reformed Church, is the oldest building in Matara Fort. It is built in a simpler way than other Dutch churches. It was built according to Dutch ...