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Tromp, Maarten Harpertszoon 1598-1653
Dutch admiral
Born in Briel, he defeated a superior Spanish fleet off Gravelines in 1639, and the same year won the Battle of the Downs. Knighted by Louis XIII of France (1640) and by Charles I of England (1642), he then fought the French pirates based on Dunkirk, and his encounter with Robert Blake in 1652 started the Anglo-Dutch Wars. Victorious off Dover, he was defeated by a superior English fleet off Portland, and finally off Terheijde, near Scheveningen, where he was killed in an engagement with George Monk. His son was Cornelis Tromp.
Bibliography: M G de Boer, Tromp en de Duinkerkers (1949)
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