Jean Bart
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Jean Bart was a Franco-Flemish naval commander and privateer.
Portrait by Mathieu Elias
1700s Dutch engraving of Jean Bart and the Battle of Texel (1694)
The Battle of Texel by Eugène Isabey, 1839
Anonymous Flanders, Jean Bart, late 1700s, engraving
Dunkirk
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Dunkirk is a major port city in the department of Nord, and the region of Hauts-de-France, northern France. It lies on the North Sea, 10 kilometres from the Belgian border. It has the third-largest Fr
Jean Bart
…French pronunciation: ; Dutch: Jan Baert; 21 October 1650 – 27 April 1702) was a Franco-Flemish naval commander and privateer. Jean Bart was born in Dunkirk in 1650 to a seafaring family, the son of Jean-Cornil Bart (c. 1619–1668) who has been described variously as a fisherman or corsair commander sailing…
The Hôtel de Ville and port
Saint Eloi Church
The Port of Dunkirk by Eugène Isabey, 1831
The Bombardment of Dunkirk by a combined Anglo-Dutch fleet, 1695