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Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp Quotes

1762–1834 Netherlands

Gijsbert Karel, Count van Hogendorp (27 October 1762 – 5 August 1834) was a Dutch statesman. He was the brother of Dirk van Hogendorp the elder and the father of Dirk van Hogendorp the younger.

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A British vessel, stopping on the way back from India at the Comoro Islands in the Mozambique Channel, finds the native inhabitants in revolt against their Arab masters; and when they ask why they have taken arms, are told: "America is free. Could not we be?"

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.