Witte Corneliszoon de With (28 March 1599 – 8 November 1658) was a Dutch States Navy officer who served during the Eighty Years' War and the First Anglo-Dutch...
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HNLMS Witte de With (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Witte de With) was an Admiralen-class destroyer, named after the 17th-century Dutch admiral of the same name. She served...
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Battle of Dungeness (category Articles with short description)
New Style, Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp, again (unofficial) supreme commander after his successor Vice-Admiral Witte de With had suffered a breakdown...
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1652, De Ruyter accepted a command in the Dutch Navy under lieutenant admiral Maarten Tromp, distinguished himself and was promoted to vice admiral at the...
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to distance itself from its de facto namesake, the Dutch naval admiral Witte de With, and recognise the negative impacts of colonialism. Its new name...
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squadron of Dutch Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp, who was reinforced two days later by a flotilla of Vice-Admiral Witte de With. De Oquendo took refuge in...
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Battle of the Kentish Knock (category Articles with short description)
Vice-Admiral Witte de With of the Admiralty of the Maze. This caused an immediate rift between the provinces of Holland and Zealand as De With was the...
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Maarten Tromp (redirect from Admiral Maarten Tromp)
command, with Admiral de Ruyter taking his place. On 8 October 1652, with Tromp's command still in suspension, Dutch Vice-Admiral Witte de With underestimating...
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Dungeness, De Liefde functioned as temporary squadron subcommander, or commandeur, under Johan Evertsen, when Michiel de Ruyter replaced Witte de With during...
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Piet Pieterszoon Hein (category Admirals of the navy of the Dutch Republic)
liberation from Spain, Admiral Hein, with Witte de With as his flag captain, sailed out to capture a Spanish treasure fleet loaded with silver from the Spanish...
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Karel Doorman (redirect from Admiral Karel Doorman)
he also commanded two destroyers; Witte de With and Evertsen; the latter saw action against the rebels on HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën in February 1933.[citation...
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Battle of Gibraltar (1607) (category Articles with Spanish-language sources (es))
Lambert Hendrikszoon), De Zeehond, De Griffioen, De Gouden Leeuw, De Zwarte Beer, De Witte Beer, and De Ochtendster. A Spanish fleet of 21 ships, including...
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Battle of the Downs (category Articles with Dutch-language sources (nl))
Zealand Reinforcements 27 September: Maeght van Dordrecht 42 (Vice-Admiral Witte de With) Rotterdam Overijssel 24 (Jacques Forant) Amsterdam Utrecht 30 (Gerrit...
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squadron of Dutch Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp, who was reinforced two days later by a flotilla of Vice-Admiral Witte de With. Though the Dutch force was...
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boxer de With Gerard Frederikszoon de With (fl. 1625), Dutch governor of Formosa Witte Corneliszoon de With (1599–1658), Dutch admiral DeWitt (name) De Witt...
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Battle of Plymouth (category Articles with short description)
Vice-Admiral Witte de With, of a squadron assembling in the Wielingen, off the coast of Zealand, to escort a large convoy. Around 10 August, De Ruyter...
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St. James' Day Battle (category Articles with short description)
the Dutch leading politician grand pensionary Johan de Witt ordered Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter to carry out a plan that had been prepared for...
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Dutch States Navy (category Articles with short description)
Battle of the Downs in 1639 - in which Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp and Vice-Admiral Witte de With defeated a Spanish fleet of 55 ships, put an end...
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Battle in the Bay of Matanzas (category Articles with short description)
fleet. In 1628, Admiral Piet Hein, with Witte de With as his flag captain, sailed out to capture the Spanish treasure fleet loaded with silver from their...
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Battle of the Gabbard (category Articles with short description)
Deane and Admirals John Lawson and William Penn. The Dutch had 98 ships under Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp and Vice-admiral Witte de With, divided...
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Battle of the Sound (category Articles with short description)
suffered losses. Swedish Admiral Klas Hansson Bjelkenstjerna on the 60-gun ship Draken met the Dutch Vice Admiral Witte de With on the 54-gun ship Brederode...
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Battle of the Java Sea (category Articles with short description)
flagship HNLMS De Ruyter, HNLMS Java, HMAS Perth), and nine destroyers (HMS Electra, HMS Encounter, HMS Jupiter, HNLMS Kortenaer, HNLMS Witte de With, USS Alden...
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Grace Hopper (redirect from Admiral Hopper)
American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise...
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September 1639 when a Dutch squadron under Admiral Maarten Tromp and Admiral Witte Corneliszoon de With, met with a much larger but poorly led Spanish fleet...
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Abraham van der Hulst (category Admirals of the navy of the Dutch Republic)
promoted to full captain in 1653, becoming flag captain of Vice-Admiral Witte de With on Vrijheid, fighting in the Battle of the Gabbard and the Battle...
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command of around 60 ships. On 5 October 1652 Dutch Vice-Admiral Witte Corneliszoon de With, underestimating the strength of the English, attempted to...
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Matthieu Borsboom (category Royal Netherlands Navy admirals)
in Den Helder, before being assigned to the frigate HNLMS Witte de With and then HNLMS De Ruyter. He went on to qualify as an anti-submarine warfare...
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Johan van Galen (category Admirals of the navy of the Dutch Republic)
the command of Joris van Cats. In 1645, as a Rear-Admiral, Van Galen was part of Vice-Admiral Witte de With's convoy breaking the blockade of The Sound...
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Brielle (category Articles with short description)
Tromp (1598 in Brielle – 1653), a Dutch army general and admiral in the Dutch navy Witte de With (1599 in Hoogendijk – 1658), a Dutch naval officer during...
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Battle of Scheveningen (category Articles with short description)
100 ships, to lift the blockade at the island of Texel, where Vice-Admiral Witte de With's 27 ships were blockaded by the English. Five days later, the...
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