List of Dutch People - Military

Military

  • Karel Doorman (1889–1942), naval officer
  • Piet Pieterszoon Hein (1577–1629), naval officer
  • Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1584–1647), general and stadtholder
  • Hendrick Lucifer, naval officer turned pirate
  • J. B. van Heutsz (1851–1924), governor general of the Dutch East Indies
  • Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1587–1629,) governor general of the Dutch East Indies
  • Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (1567–1625), general and stadtholder
  • Michiel de Ruyter (1607–1676), naval officer
  • Cornelis Tromp (1629–1691), naval officer
  • Maarten Tromp (1598–1653), naval officer
  • Cornelis de Witt (1623–1672), naval officer and statesman
  • Witte Corneliszoon de With (1599–1658), naval officer

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Famous quotes containing the word military:

    “My ancestors were all famous for military genius.”
    My Lady smiled graciously. “It often runs in families,” she remarked: “just as a love for pastry does.”
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    There was somewhat military in his nature, not to be subdued, always manly and able, but rarely tender, as if he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Nothing changes my twenty-six years in the military. I continue to love it and everything it stands for and everything I was able to accomplish in it. To put up a wall against the military because of one regulation would be doing the same thing that the regulation does in terms of negating people.
    Margarethe Cammermeyer (b. 1942)