31 July 1653(1653-07-31) (aged 55) Battle of Scheveningen
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Oude Kerk, Delft
Allegiance
Dutch Republic
Years of service
1607–1653
Battles/wars
Eighty Years' War
Battle of Gibraltar
Action of 18 February 1639
Fight in the Channel
Battle of the Downs
Siege of Dunkirk
Siege of Mardyck
First Anglo-Dutch War
Battle of Dover
Battle of Dungeness
Battle of Portland
Battle of the Gabbard
Battle of Scheveningen †
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Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp or Maarten van Tromp (23 April 1598 – 31 July 1653) was an army general and admiral in the Dutch navy during much of the Eighty Years' War and throughout the First Anglo-Dutch War. Son of a ship's captain, Tromp spent much of his childhood at sea, during which time he was captured by pirates and enslaved by Barbary corsairs. In adult life, he became a renowned ship captain and naval commander, successfully leading Dutch forces fighting for independence in the Eighty Years' War, and then against England in the First Anglo-Dutch War, proving an innovative tactician and enabling the newly independent Dutch nation to become a major sea power. He was killed in battle by a sharpshooter from an English ship. Several ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy have carried the name HNLMS Tromp after him and/or his son Cornelis, also a Dutch admiral of some renown.
Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp or Maarten van Tromp (23 April 1598 – 31 July 1653) was an army general and admiral in the Dutch navy during much of the Eighty...
Scanian War. His father was the renowned Lieutenant Admiral MaartenTromp. Cornelis Maartenszoon Tromp was born on 9 September 1629, in Rotterdam, in the historically...
have been named HNLMS Tromp after Admiral MaartenTromp (1598–1653), or his son Cornelis Tromp (1629–1691): HNLMS Admiraal C. Tromp, a 7-gun armed schooner...
21 November 1652 Old Style, 1 December New Style, Lieutenant-Admiral MaartenTromp, again (unofficial) supreme commander after his successor Vice-Admiral...
was decisively defeated by a Dutch force under Lieutenant-Admiral MaartenTromp. Victory ended Spanish efforts to re-assert naval control over the English...
usually appointed from one of those admiralties. That role fell first MaartenTromp. When de Ruyter was given command of the fleet, his commission as lieutenant-admiral...
of Admiral MaartenTromp. In remembrance of the battle there is a monument in the village. In 2003, 350 years after the battle, the Tromp-festival was...
hamlet of Hoogendijk near Brielle or Brill, the very town in which MaartenTromp had been born a year earlier. According to legend, they were friends...
place on 16 and 17 September 1639 when a Dutch squadron under Admiral MaartenTromp and Admiral Witte Corneliszoon de With, met with a much larger but poorly...
fought off Dunkirk between a Dutch fleet under the command of Admiral MaartenTromp and the Spanish Dunkirk Squadron under Miguel de Horna. Horna, who had...
Ruyter accepted a command in the Dutch Navy under lieutenant admiral MaartenTromp, distinguished himself and was promoted to vice admiral at the end of...
economic downturn affecting it. On 24 July, Dutch Lieutenant-Admiral MaartenTromp put to sea in Brederode with a fleet of 100 ships, to lift the blockade...
4: Quest for Power King Zakour Direct-to-DVD 2015 Michiel de Ruyter MaartenTromp 2015 The Letters Father Benjamin Praggh 2016 Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of...
consequently as the basis of all fleet tactics." The Dutch admiral MaartenTromp first used the line of battle tactic in the Fight in the Channel, although...
Swings, Belgian speed skater Maarten Tjallingii, former Dutch racing cyclist Maarten Treurniet, Dutch film director MaartenTromp, 17th century officer and...
medals. They depict several members of the House of Orange, Admiral MaartenTromp, Jan Wolfert van Brederode, Charles X of Sweden and Charles II of England...
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