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Cornelis Evertsen the Elder

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122: 25: 253:(1655–1711). Both would be supreme commanders of the confederate Dutch fleet. All three men shared the same cantankerous character. After the death of his first wife in 1657 Cornelis remarried in 1659; from this marriage another two children were born. On his death he left a heritage worth 45,000 211:(13 June 1665); his elder brother was after the fight much criticised for his behaviour and had to resign as commander, though keeping his rank. Cornelis was now promoted to Lieutenant-Admiral also, so that for a time the Dutch navy had seven officers of this rank. 244:
Cornelis Evertsen the Elder had fourteen children from his first marriage in 1640 with Johanna van Gorcum, five of which died as infants. Two of them would become flag officers as well: his second child, named after him, Lieutenant-Admiral
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Cornelis functioned as a Vice-Commodore in the Zealandic navy; he was appointed on a confederate level to the equivalent rank of temporary Rear-Admiral on 1 May 1652. In the
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decided first to stay ashore, but when Cornelis was killed, he joined as yet the fleet and took command of the vanguard of De Ruyter. He was killed on the first day of the
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from the Swedish. In 1661 he was third in command of the Dutch Mediterranean fleet under De Ruyter, executing punitive actions against the corsairs of
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In 1626 Cornelis is first mentioned as actually serving on sea, during a privateering raid. On 25 August 1636 he was appointed captain. In the
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When his father was killed in battle in 1617, the Admiralty of Zealand appointed all five of his sons as Lieutenant, including Cornelis (or
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Cornelis Evertsen the Elder was the son of Johan Evertsen and Maayken Jans; grandson of Evert Heindricxsen, a
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was promoted to the first Lieutenant-Admiral that province ever had. Cornelis Evertsen took part in the
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Levens-beschrijving van Johan en Cornelis Evertsen, Luitenant-Admiralen van Zeeland
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his ship sank and he, wounded, was prisoner of the English for three months.
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When the next major naval battle was fought with England in June 1666, the
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threatened, he was made Vice-Admiral of Zealand, while his brother
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Raid on America : the Dutch naval campaign of 1672-1674
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On 14 March 1654 he was appointed Rear-Admiral. During the
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Cornelis Evertsen the Elder, engraving after a painting by
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