Lieutenant-Colonel on 17 May 1583. On 28 February 1585 he became lieutenant-admiral of Zeeland, and fought in 1588 against the Spanish Armada, capturing two...

counter-terrorist and anti-piracy operations in the Mediterranean Sea, and in the Horn of Africa. Bauer entered the Royal Netherlands Navy through the Royal Naval...

Maximilian Johannes Maria Hubert Reichsgraf von Spee (22 June 1861 – 8 December 1914) was a naval officer of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy)...

writer (died 1669) March - Clas Fleming (admiral), admiral and administrator (died 1644) 22 October - Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, soldier and politician...

from Johannes Matthiae Gothus's diary: Christina Johansdotter born 1636-02-14 in the court assembly, † 1636-07-20 of severe chest disease. Johannes Matthiae...

Admirals of Germany have existed since the founding of German sea forces, first with the Reichsflotte and then most predominantly that of the Prussian...

its Gothenburg squadron and the newly built 60-gun Kalmar. The Swedish Admiral Horn spent almost two weeks training his crews by cruising between the island...

circumvented Constantinople's land defences by breaching the Golden Horn Wall, which faces the Horn. Another strategy employed by the Byzantines was the repair...

German-born Dutch physician Frans van Schooten (1615–1660), Dutch mathematician Johannes Phocylides Holwarda (1618-1651), Dutch natural philosopher and proponent...

astronomer Johannes Kepler DMP · 1481 1482 Sebastiana 1938 DA1 Sebastian Finsterwalder, German DMP · 1482 1483 Hakoila 1938 DJ1 Kosti Johannes Hakoila (1898–)...

Johann Günther Lütjens (25 May 1889 – 27 May 1941) was a German admiral whose military service spanned more than 30 years and two world wars. Lütjens...

describes the action as a mutiny by the admirals: When we think of the end of the war in 1918, we have to imagine admirals who had hoped throughout the war to...

the attacking German forces. In 1939, Crown Prince Olav was appointed an admiral of the Royal Norwegian Navy and a general of the Norwegian Army. During...

Toulouse, duke of Aquitaine,[citation needed] and marquis of Septimania. The horn that came to symbolize Orange when heraldry came in vogue much later in the...

was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant and in 1905 to the rank of admiral. During his naval career, he took part in several naval expeditions, including...

controversial. The first depiction of Terra Australis on a globe was probably on Johannes Schöner's lost 1523 globe on which Oronce Fine is thought to have based...

employed north of the Golden Horn. Communication was maintained by a road that had been constructed over the marshy head of the Horn. After the inconclusive...

player and manager Johannes Zukertort (1842–1888), German Polish-Jewish chessmaster Heinrich Abeken (1809–1872), theologian Johannes Agricola (1494–1566)...

arms Royal standard Royal monogram The King is a four-star general, an admiral, and formally the Supreme Commander of the Norwegian Armed Forces. The...

1680) 1620 – John Evelyn, English gardener and author (d. 1706) 1632 – Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (d. 1675) 1636 – Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria...

(equivalent to four-star rank, today: OF-9). December 27, 1911 – Carl von Horn (1847–1923), Minister of War August 1, 1914 – Otto Kreß von Kressenstein...

  76–77. Donegan 2013, p. 293. Horn 2010, pp.  93–94. Horn 2010, pp.  94–97. Kupperman 2007, pp.  77–78. Lane 1586, p.  322. Horn 2010, pp.  97–98. Kupperman...

in the Red Sea, as well as the oil tanker Waler and the container ship Johannes Maersk in the Mediterranean Sea. The Houthis on 1 July claimed to have...

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern hosted a reception given aboard by German President Johannes Rau, and attended by the Japanese imperial couple, Emperor Akihito and...

(1989–1991). Lee Chun-seok, 65, South Korean footballer (Daewoo Royals). Johannes Lott, 94, Estonian lawyer and politician, chairman of the Supreme Soviet...

letter written by Frederik van Horn and preserved at the Gelders Archief (found by Haemers and van Driel) shows that van Horn was the person who committed...

moat with palisades in front. Constantinople's location between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara reduced the land area that needed defensive walls...

the rapidly deteriorating military and domestic political situations. Admiral Georg Alexander von Müller noted, "The dishonesty at Headquarters has reached...

500 years later, "the walls of Edinburgh did not fall before this ram's-horn blast, and August 23rd came and went without the required homage or recognition...

Battle between the Dutch Republic fleet (84 ships under the command of Admiral Michiel de Ruyter) and the English Royal Navy (79 ships led by the Duke...