Maarten Tromp
Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp or
Maarten van Tromp (23 April 1598 – 31 July 1653) was an
army general and
admiral in the
Dutch navy during much of the
Eighty Years' War and throughout the
First Anglo-Dutch War. Son of a ship's captain, Tromp spent much of his childhood at sea, during which time he was captured by pirates and enslaved by
Barbary Corsairs. In adult life, he became a renowned ship captain and naval commander, successfully leading Dutch forces fighting for independence in the Eighty Years War, and then against England in the First Anglo-Dutch War, proving an innovative tactician and enabling the newly independent Dutch nation to become a major sea power. He was killed in battle by a sharpshooter from an English ship.
Several ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy have carried the name HNLMS ''Tromp'' after him and/or his son
Cornelis, also a Dutch Admiral of some renown.
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