Follow Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam through 6 dated historical records for Netherlands.
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Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam served as a Dutch fleet commander in the Anglo Dutch naval conflict. The English and Dutch fleets assembled off the Suffolk coast for the first great fleet battle of the Second Anglo Dutch War.
Role range: 1665-1667
Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam served as a Dutch fleet commander in the Anglo Dutch naval conflict. The fighting was shaped by fleet formations and heavy broadsides as both sides contested control of the waters off Lowestoft.
Role range: 1665-1667
Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam served as a Dutch fleet commander in the Anglo Dutch naval conflict. The destruction and capture of numerous Dutch vessels gave the English a decisive victory and disrupted Dutch naval command.
Role range: 1665-1667
Obdam commands Dutch troops serving in Marlborough's Allied army.
Role range: 1701-1714 – 1702-1703
Obdam leads a Dutch force operating near Antwerp.
Role range: 1701-1714 – 1702-1703
Obdam leaves the battlefield believing his force has been destroyed.
Role range: 1701-1714 – 1702-1703
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