Piet Heyn at Bahia, 1627: Straight into the Guns | Part II

On 3 March 1627, Piet Heyn sailed his flagship in broad daylight into the Bay of All Saints in Brazil, under every gun of Salvador, and took 22 ships in under three hours. Part II follows the man behind it, from the Dutch Revolt and four years chained to a Spanish galley oar to Bahia, the Silver Fleet, and his death at sea in 1629. Piet Heyn (Piet Hein), Part II: the Revolt, the galleys and Bahia, 1627. Part I: the Silver Fleet, 1628. IN THIS FILM • The Dutch Revolt in maps and period prints: the Council of Blood, Brielle, Haarlem, the flooding of Holland to relieve Leiden • Heyn's boyhood in Delfshaven, the galleys of Sluis, Havana and his marriage to Anneke • Bahia, 3–4 March 1627 in full 3D: the run-in, point-blank broadsides, the boarding, the Oranjeboom exploding and the Amsterdam burned • Matanzas 1628, Heyn's last fight in 1629, and an alternate history: what if Spain had won? CHAPTERS 0:00 Noon at the Bay of All Saints, 1627 1:20 The Seventeen Provinces 2:48 The Council of Blood (1567–1568) 3:55 The Year of Fire (1572–1573) 5:40 The Relief of Leiden (1574) 6:47 The Fall of Antwerp (1576–1585) 8:25 The Boy from Delfshaven 9:37 The Oar: A Spanish Galley Slave 12:37 The Republic of Ships 14:21 What Defeat Means: The Huguenots 16:28 The Company (1609–1623) 17:33 Bahia (1624) 19:56 The Council (1627) 23:10 Battle of Bahia, 3 March 1627 28:57 What Might Have Been 31:44 The Silver Fleet (1628) 34:25 The Last Fight (1629) 38:08 After Darkness, Light SOURCES Primary: Joannes de Laet, Historie ofte Iaerlijck Verhael van de West-Indische Compagnie (Leiden, 1644); Frei Vicente do Salvador, História do Brasil (1627); Piet Heyn, journal of 1624–25 (ed. L. M. Akveld, 1962) and report of 11 August 1627. Historians: Ronald Prud'homme van Reine, Admiraal Zilvervloot: Biografie van Piet Hein (2003); Cesáreo Fernández Duro, Armada Española, vol. IV (1898); Jan de Vries & Ad van der Woude, The First Modern Economy (1997). CREDITS Narration: synthetic voice (Kokoro TTS). Research, script, animation and edit: Astrolabe. Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): "Achilles", "Anguish", "Clash Defiant", "Crusade", "Dark Walk", "Five Armies", "Heroic Age", "Oppressive Gloom", "Stormfront", "Thaxted" (melody G. Holst), "Aftermath", "Dark Times", "Decisions", "Echoes of Time v2", "Evening of Chaos", "Final Battle of the Dark Wizards", "Gathering Darkness", "Gregorian Chant", "Heart of Nowhere", "Lightless Dawn", "Majestic Hills", "Suonatore di Liuto", "At Launch", "Clenched Teeth", "Colossus", "Death of Kings", "Egmont Overture Finale" (L. van Beethoven), "Gloom Horizon", "Lost Frontier", "Lost Time", "For the Fallen", "Long Road Ahead". Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Music: "Ach Gott vom Himmel, sieh darein" (J. P. Sweelinck), organ: Anthony Mark LaMort, CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), via Internet Archive; re-encoded. Music: "Est-ce Mars" (J. P. Sweelinck), organ: Ashtar Moïra, CC BY 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/), via Wikimedia Commons; converted to MP3, level adjusted. Music: "O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß" (EG 76; melody M. Greiter 1525, the Genevan Psalm 68 tune), organ: Volker Schöpfer, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), via Wikimedia Commons; re-encoded. Arranged for this film from public-domain melodies: "Wilhelmus", "Wilt heden nu treden" (Valerius 1626), "Piet Hein" (Heije / Viotta), "Merck toch hoe sterck" (Valerius 1626); Valerius settings by Peter Gerloff (CC0). Rendered with the GeneralUser GS SoundFont by S. Christian Collins. Sound effects from soundbible.com: "Cicada", "Crisp Ocean Waves", "Distant Thunder", "Rain", "Sea Waves", "Ship Bell", "Tree Frogs And Birds" by Mike Koenig (CC BY 3.0); "Flock Seagulls" by Daniel Simion (CC BY 3.0); "Wind" by Mark DiAngelo (CC BY 3.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. Other sound effects: generated with ElevenLabs, or public domain. Links for every credit: see the pinned comment. Image: Alessandro Magnasco, The Embarkation of Galley Slaves in the Port of Genoa - Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux; photo Tylwyth Eldar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped). Image: Tomb of Piet Heyn, Oude Kerk, Delft - photo W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Image: Statue of Piet Heyn by Joseph Graven (1870), Delfshaven - photo Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Period paintings, prints and maps: public domain / CC0, via Wikimedia Commons, the Rijksmuseum, Royal Museums Greenwich and other collections. Rendered with the Chronicle Engine: a custom engine that rebuilds each battle from the historical record (fleets, maps, terrain, wind and weather) and renders it in 4K. #history #documentary #NavalHistory