biography
pronunciation:
[duh mohr]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1548–1648)
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| biography:
| Vice-admiral of Zeeland, who displayed great courage in fighting the Spanish in Zeeland waters (1572–4) and contributed to the relief of Leiden in 1574. In 1585 he blockaded Dunkirk, where Parma's army was awaiting the Armada. In 1603 he defeated a fleet of Spanish galleys off Sluis, when the Spanish admiral Spinola was killed. He came from a seafaring family; his father Jan (1573), and two sons, Josius and Abraham, were killed fighting the Spaniards, and his grandson Cornelis was killed fighting Dunkirk privateers. |
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