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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Michiel de Ruyter (redirect from Anna van Gelder)
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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Maarten Tromp (redirect from Maarten Harpertzoon van Tromp)
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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