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Thursday, April 21, 2005

Luc Eekhout says that Jan Gideonsz. Verburgh was at the Battle of the Sound

While Luc Eekhout, in Het Admiralenboek, writes that Jan Gideonszoon Verburgh (Verburch) was at the Battle of the Sound, that is probably wrong. In 1658 and 1659, he commanded the relatively new ship Amsterdam (54 guns). He was with Michiel De Ruyter's fleet in 1659, when the fleet of 39 ships was in the Baltic, along with an English fleet. De Ruyter's fleet landed soldiers and captured the island of Funen from the Swedes. This operation is usually named after the port city Nyborg.

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