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    Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam (1610 – 13 June 1665) was a Dutch States Navy officer and nobleman who became lieutenant admiral, and supreme commander of the...
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    Castle Jacob II van Wassenaer Obdam (1645–1714) married Adriana Sophia von Raesfeld in 1676, who inherited Twickel Castle near Delden. The branch van Wassenaer...
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    Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam (25 August 1635 – 24 May 1714) was a Dutch States Army officer from the prominent Van Wassenaer family who served in the Franco-Dutch...
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    Wijntrack (1615 in Heusden – 1678) a Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam (1645 in Heusden – 1714) a Dutch general in the War of the Spanish...
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    a wall, which once enclosed the gardens. Marie Cornélie countes of Wassenaer Obdam (1799-1850), owner of Twickel Castle, acquired the Hof te Dieren estate...
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    mostly by two patrons: Johan Hendrik van Wassenaer Obdam (1683–1745) and the De la Court Family. Count Van Wassenaer Obdam was a nobleman and politician from...
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    Swedish attack while his commanding officer, Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam, was debilitated by gout. After this heroic conduct against the...
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    Willem as his flagship. Tromp's successor was Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam. Tromp commanded the Dutch squadron that escorted Queen Henrietta...
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    De Graeff, the army commander Johann Wolfart van Brederode and Lieutenant Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam urged the Dutch States General to position themselves...
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    became the flagship of Tromp's successor Lieutenant-Admiraal Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam. She took part in the expedition to Danzig in 1656, by when she...
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    Colonel Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam then became the new Dutch supreme commander of the confederate fleet. De Ruyter at first refused to become Obdam's naval...
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    Battle of Lowestoft (category James II of England)
    ships of the United Provinces commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer, Lord Obdam, attacked a British fleet of equal size commanded by James...
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    important commission for Eggers was that for the monument of Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam, admiral of the Dutch fleet, who was killed in 1665 in the Battle...
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    Evertsen sailed under Michiel de Ruyter in the fleet that assisted Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam in reconquering the Danish islands after they had been lost in...
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    out long enough for the Dutch fleet under Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam to relieve the city, defeating the Swedish fleet in the Battle...
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    German-Danish humanist, writer, astrologer and statesman (1580) Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam, Dutch lieutenant-admiral (1659) Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer...
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    1629 - 18 June 1629) Philips van Dorp chef,(1632 -1653) Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp chef,(1637-1653) Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam chef,(1653-1665) Michiel de...
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    magazine, which blew up, destroying the ship and killing Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam. For his part in the battle, he was one of thirteen naval officers...
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    16 – Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (d. 1696) August 25 – Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam, Dutch general (d. 1714) August 30 – Giuseppe Avanzi, Italian...
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    under the Duke of York, attacked the Dutch Republic fleet under Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam in the Battle of Lowestoft. The Royal Katherine was engaged by...
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    under James Stuart, Duke of York badly defeat Dutch fleet under Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam 2 August Vågen – English squadron repelled attempting to capture...
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    under Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam of the new Dutch navy. The fleet was dispatched to Danzig which helped persuade the Swedes to lift this blockade. Obdam was...
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    HMS Gloucester (1654) (category James II of England)
    Jamaica Station. In November 1658, after a Dutch fleet commanded by Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam defeated the Swedes in the Battle of the Sound, and lifted the...
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    Cornelis de Graeff (category Jacob van Ruisdael)
    Charles X Gustav of Sweden's war against Poland - another under Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam to the Baltic Sea. Fortunately for the Netherlands, this war ended...
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  • 16 – Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (d. 1696) August 25 – Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam, Dutch general (d. 1714) August 30 – Giuseppe Avanzi, Italian...
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    on the Baltic Sea and sent a fleet led by Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam to help the Danes in what became known as the Dutch-Swedish War...
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