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exploited the crisis to force Dutch North Sea herring fishers to pay for fishing permits. All that caused such an outcry that when Van Dorp offered his resignation, Frederick Henry was forced to accept it, also firing
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trees of the inhabitants, to increase the price of this commodity. He departed for the
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