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:
“In all sincerity, we offer to the loved ones of all innocent victims over the past 25 years, abject and true remorse. No words of ours will compensate for the intolerable suffering they have undergone during the conflict.”
—Combined Loyalist Military Command. New York Times, p. A12 (October 14, l994)
“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)