Claim: During the Franco-Dutch War in 1674, Fort Pentagouet was captured by the Dutch captain Jurriaen Aernoutsz, commander of the frigate Flying Horse, and turned its cannon on its own walls and destroyed most of it later.
Evidence: During the Franco-Dutch War (1674), Pentagouët and other Acadian ports were captured by the Dutch captain Jurriaen Aernoutsz who arrived from New Amsterdam, renaming Acadia, New Holland. The commander of the frigate Flying Horse, based at Curaçao during the Third Anglo-Dutch War, Aernoutsz was dispatched by the governor of Curaçao to fight French and English ships in the North Atlantic after the Netherlands recaptured New York City. The Dutch turned the fort's cannon on its own walls and destroyed most of it after the second siege.