Abraham Momber van de Velde
Template:Short description Abraham Momber, also known as Abraham Momber van de Velde, was the last commander (opperhoofd) of the Dutch East India Company (Template:Langx, commonly abbreviated to VOC) settlement on Mauritius. He followed Roelof Deodati as the de facto Dutch governor on November 25, 1703. On November 15, 1707, the VOC's premises, goods, and administration were almost entirely destroyed by a fire.
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After destroying everything they could not take with them in order to prevent the abandoned station to be of service to anyone else, Momber and his garrison left on January 25, 1710, to Batavia on the ship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..[1]Template:Rp The next colonial governor did not arrive until 1715 with Guillaume Dufresne d' Arsel of the French East India Company.
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Further reading
- Allister Macmillan, Mauritius illustrated: historical and descriptive, commercial and industrial facts, figures, and resources., London : W.H. & L. Collingridge, 1914