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For several months, the British North Sea fleet, commanded by Scottish-born Admiral Adam Duncan, had been on station in the frigid sea, blockading the Dutch naval vessels in the harbors at Den Helder and Texel in the Frisian Islands and countering the French strategy of landing troops in Ireland to provide direct support for an uprising against ...
The Royal Netherlands Navy (Dutch: Koninklijke Marine) is the naval force of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. [2] It is one of the four Netherlands Armed Forces. [3] It was founded on 8 January 1488, [4] making it the third-oldest naval force in the world . During the 17th century, the navy of the Dutch Republic (1581–1795) was one of the most ...
ADMIRAL Official Trailer. When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and the country itself is on the brink of civil war, only one man can lead the county's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet: Michiel de Ruyter. When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and ...
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Built in 1653, the Eendracht was a 76-gun flagship of Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer van Obdam. His pennant streams out against the sky below the Dutch flag on the main mast. The ship’s name means ‘Union’ and it came to symbolise the long fight by the newly United Provinces of the Dutch Republic for their freedom from Spanish rule.
Piet Heyn was an admiral and director of the Dutch West India Company who captured a Spanish treasure fleet (1628) with 4,000,000 ducats of gold and silver (12,000,000 gulden, or florins). That great naval and economic victory provided the Dutch Republic with money to continue its struggle against
Raid on the Medway. / 51.4039; 0.531944. The Raid on the Medway, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in June 1667, was a successful attack conducted by the Dutch navy on English warships laid up in the fleet anchorages off Chatham Dockyard and Gillingham in the county of Kent. At the time, the fortress of Upnor Castle and a barrier chain called ...
Mar 15, 2016 · When Admiral Maarten Tromp (Hauer), the leader of the Dutch fleet, is killed in battle, de Witt recruits the reluctant de Ruyter (Frank Lammers) to assume command.
