Battle of the Sound
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The Battle of the Sound was a naval engagement which took place on 8 November 1658 during the Second Northern War, near the Sound or Øresund, just north of the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Sweden had i
The Battle of the Sound, by Peter van de Velde
The Dutch fleet, led by admiral Obdam, enters the Sound on October 29, 1658
Battle of the Sound by Willem van de Velde the Elder.
First Phase of the Battle of the Sound, Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten
Witte de With
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Witte Corneliszoon de With was a Dutch States Navy officer who served during the Eighty Years' War and the First Anglo-Dutch War.
Battle of the Sound
…off the coast of Ven. The Dutch also 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. Fire broke out on both ships. "Eventually the Swedish ship Wismar also came to it, lay down in front of the bow and thus…
Portrait by Abraham van Westerveld
De With in 1654
Witte de With's Action with Dunkirkers off Nieuwpoort in 1640
The grave memorial of Admiral Witte de With, prominently showing the globe he sailed around