Willem Joseph van Ghent information

Willem Joseph baron van Ghent tot Drakenburgh (14 May 1626 – 7 June 1672) was a 17th-century Dutch admiral. His surname is also sometimes rendered Gendt...

protect the English ships. The Dutch, under nominal command of Willem Joseph van Ghent and Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, over several days bombarded...

Pieter van Gent (c.1480–1572), Flemish missionary in Mexico known there as Pedro de Gante Willem Joseph van Ghent (1626–1672), Dutch admiral Van Gendt...

by Lieutenant-Admirals Michiel de Ruyter, Adriaen Banckert and Willem Joseph van Ghent, surprised a joint Anglo-French fleet of 93 warships (sources vary)...

as the Regiment de Marine. The first commander of the corps was Willem Joseph van Ghent. The Dutch had successfully used conventional troops embarked on...

Ghent University (Dutch: Universiteit Gent, abbreviated as UGent) is a public research university located in Ghent, Belgium. Located in Flanders, Ghent...

British ships under Commodore Richard Beach and Dutch ships under Willem Joseph van Ghent destroyed six Barbary ships near Cape Spartel. During the War of...

Ghent (Dutch: Gent [ɣɛnt] ; French: Gand [ɡɑ̃] ; historically known as Gaunt in English) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium...

Sandwich (b. 1625) John Trevor, Welsh politician (b. 1626) June 7 – Willem Joseph van Ghent, Dutch admiral (b. 1626) June 14 – Matthew Wren, English politician...

the "flag captain" of the 80-gun Dutch flagship Hollandia under Willem Joseph van Ghent from 1666-1667. Tobias is noted for his valour during the Dutch...

Battle of Lowestoft in 1665 and in actions of Lieutenant-Admiral Willem Joseph van Ghent in West Africa against the Barbary pirates in 1670. In 1669 Schey...

protect the English ships. The Dutch, under nominal command of Willem Joseph van Ghent and Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, over several days bombarded...

a permanent post. In 1670, he served under lieutenant-admiral Willem Joseph van Ghent in the expedition against the privateers of Algiers, receiving...

returning with his crew in sloops, Van Brakel saved the Gelderland, the flagship of Lieutenant-Admiral Willem Joseph van Ghent from an attack by an English...

from Ghent, who were either born in Ghent, or spent part of their life there. Henry of Ghent, scholastic philosopher (c. 1217 – 1293) Jacob van Artevelde...

regiment of soldiers aboard the ship was instituted under Baron Willem Joseph van Ghent. These later became the nucleus of the Netherlands Marine Corps...

off to cruise up and down the English Channel, leaving Admiral Jan Jansse van Nes in charge of the blockade, which lasted until the end of July. Further...

missionary of the Franciscan Recollet Order (French (d. 1704) May 14 – Willem Joseph van Ghent, Dutch admiral (d. 1672) May 16 – Andrea Carlone, Italian painter...

Floriszoon Jan van Galen Willem Joseph van Ghent Isaack Gilsemans Lenaert Jansz de Graeff Hendrik Gravé Jacob Groenewegen Steven van der Hagen Hendrick Hamel...

on HMS Hampshire) and from the Dutch Republic (led by Admiral Willem Joseph van Ghent on Spiegel) rescue 250 Christian slaves and then sink six Algerian...

had invented oil painting. His brother Hubert van Eyck collaborated on Jan's most famous works, the Ghent Altarpiece, generally art historians believe...

Flanders, including Ghent, a town he mentions twice in his work. The only surviving Medieval text that can be attributed to Willem is Van den vos Reynaerde...

on HMS Hampshire) and from the Dutch Republic (led by Admiral Willem Joseph van Ghent on Spiegel) rescue 250 Christian slaves and then sink six Algerian...

Noble": It is supposed that Willem wrote Van den Vos Reinaerde to encourage Siger III, chatelain of the Counts’ Castle in Ghent, who was unjustly deprived...

Willem van Genk (April 2, 1927 – May 12, 2005) was a Dutch painter and graphic artist, celebrated as one of the leading masters of Outsider Art. Throughout...

missionary of the Franciscan Recollet Order (French (d. 1704) May 14 – Willem Joseph van Ghent, Dutch admiral (d. 1672) May 16 – Andrea Carlone, Italian painter...

Holland) is a Dutch actor. He has appeared in several Dutch movies, among them Van God Los, Eilandgasten, Schnitzelparadijs and De Dominee. He also appeared...

Antwerp, 1590) Haecht, Willem van (Antwerp, 1593 – Antwerp, 1697) Heere, Lucas de (Ghent, 1534 – Paris, 1584) Hemessen, Caterina van (Antwerp, 1528 – Antwerp...