This is an ongoing discussion about 17th Century naval wargaming (really, 1620-1720). Part of what is offered are scenarios for games: orders-of-battle, ship lists, battle descriptions, and scenarios for Age of Sail II-Privateers Bounty (a sailing warfare computer simulation/game), suitable scaled for that environment. Copyright (c) 2003-2004 James C. Bender
Friday, April 15, 2005
Dutch naval officer Gideon de Wildt
Gideon de Wildt served the Admiralty of Amsterdam. He was born in Amsterdam on 26 June 1624. He died there on 12 September 1665. He served in the First Anglo-Dutch War as a division commander. He was 27, almost 28 years old at the start of the war. He commanded at the Battles of the Kentish Knock and Dungeness in 1652. He took part in the operation to Nyborg in 1659. In 1644, he was promoted to captain. On 29 January 1665, he was promoted to Schout-bij-Nacht. I have added to my translation of the passage in Luc Eekhout's Het Admiralenboek.
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