Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen

Dutch admiral

Date of Birth: 01-May-1735

Place of Birth: Doesburg, Gelderland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 24-May-1819

Profession: military personnel, politician

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen

  • Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen (1 May 1735 – 24 May 1819), or Count of Doggersbank, was a Dutch naval officer.
  • Having had a good scientific education, Van Kinsbergen was a proponent of fleet modernization and wrote many books about naval organization, discipline and tactics. In 1773, he twice defeated an Ottoman fleet while in Russian service.
  • Returning to the Dutch Republic in 1775, he became a Dutch naval hero in 1781, fighting the Royal Navy, and gradually attained the position of commander-in-chief as a lieutenant-admiral.
  • When France conquered the Republic in 1795 he was fired by the new revolutionary regime and prevented from becoming Danish commander-in-chief, but the Kingdom of Holland reinstated him in 1806, in the rank of fleet marshal, and made him a count.
  • He was again degraded by the French Empire in 1810; after the liberation the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1814 honoured him with his old rank of lieutenant-admiral. Van Kinsbergen, in his later life a very wealthy man, was also noted for his philanthropy, supporting poor relief, naval education, the arts and the sciences.

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