The real blame for the continuation in office of the increasingly megalomaniacal Maire lies with the Liberals. |
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On 24 January 1609, Le Maire filed a petition against the VOC, marking the first recorded expression of shareholder activism. |
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The strait between Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados was named the Le Maire Strait in his honor, though not without controversy. |
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In 1615, Jacob le Maire and Willem Schouten's rounding of Cape Horn proved that Tierra del Fuego was a relatively small island. |
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On 14 June 1615 Jacob le Maire and Willem Schouten sailed from Texel in the United Provinces. |
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Le Maire was aboard the ship Amsterdam on this journey home, but died en route. |
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The experienced ship master Willem Schouten was captain of the Eendracht and a participant of the enterprise in equal shares with Isaac Le Maire. |
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However, in 1605 Isaac Le Maire was forced to leave the company after a dispute and for the next decade tried to break the company's monopoly on the trade to the East Indies. |
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It was Le Maire himself who proposed to the council aboard Eendracht that the new passage should be called by his name and the council unanimously agreed with Le Maire. |
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Le Maire and Schouten were arrested and the Eendracht was confiscated. |
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