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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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    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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    Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam, the 17th century admiral. Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, the 18th century diplomat and composer. Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer-Obdam...
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    Unico Wilhelm, Count van Wassenaer Obdam (30 October 1692 – 9 November 1766) was a Dutch nobleman who was a diplomat as well as a composer. He reorganized...
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    Jacob van Wassenaer Duivenvoorde, lord of Obdam (1574, Haarlem – 31 August 1623, Heusden), was a Dutch naval commander, Lieutenant-Admiral of the United...
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    The van Duvenvoorde family become the Lords of the town. 1610 - Birth of Jacob, Baron van Wassenaer, Lord of Obdam; Son of Jacob van Duvenvoorde van Wassenaer...
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    its trade. The Dutch, under the command of Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam with Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer as his flag captain, who had...
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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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    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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    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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    cenotaph monument of Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam, designed and sculpted by Bartholomeus Eggers in 1667, and the renaissance tomb of Gerrit van Assendelft (1487–1558)...
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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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    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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    he was second in command in the squadron of Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam, taking over command of this unit when the latter was killed because...
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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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    and his 11-ship squadron led the charge, followed by Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam on the 72-gun Eendracht with 13 ships in the squadron. The last...
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    of his difficult personality in favour of Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam. Between 1654 and 1656 he was inactive, only sailing again for...
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    After the death of the Dutch supreme commander Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam in the Battle of Lowestoft Adelaer was considered for this function...
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    under Klas Hansson Bjelkenstjerna and a Dano-Dutch fleet under Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam. The battle ended inconclusively. On 30 April, 1659, a Swedish...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    however, a Dutch relief fleet arrived under Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam leading to the Battle of the Sound on 29 October 1658. The resulting...
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    prevent the fall of Nijmegen. The following year he served under Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam near Antwerp and fought in the Battle of Ekeren. Their small Dutch...
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    Dutch support in the Sound, although when the Dutch fleet under Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam showed up, Kronborg proved of limited use, and was not able to...
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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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    Sound, a naval engagement that took place during the conflict, Admiral Obdam of the Dutch forces expressed intentions to launch an attack on Swedish...
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