Cornelis Evertsen (senior) ( Dutch Cornelis Evertsen de Oude ; August 4, 1610 , Vlissingen - June 11, 1666 ) - Dutch admiral, naval commander.
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| Cornelis Evertsen de Oude | |
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| Affiliation |  Republic of the United Provinces |
| Rank |  Lieutenant admiral |
Biography
Cornelis Evertsen Senior is a hereditary sailor. His grandfather and father served in the Navy of Zealand. After the death of his father in battle in 1617, the Admiralty of Zealand, taking into account the great merits, awarded all his five sons the rank of lieutenant, including, despite his young age, Cornelis and his older brother Johan .
Service in the navy of the Netherlands began under the command of Admiral Martin Harpertson Tromp .
In 1626 Cornelis was first mentioned in the lists of sailors of the Dutch fleet participating in a privateer raid. On August 25, 1636 he was appointed captain.
At the Battle of Downs in 1639, in which the Dutch fleet destroyed the Spanish, seeking refuge in neutral English waters, Captain Evertsen captured the Spanish galleon .
Member of the First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-1654). On May 1, 1652, he was appointed deputy commodore of the Navy of Zealand in the rank of interim rear admiral.
In the naval battle at Scheveningen his ship was sunk, and he, wounded, was captured. For 3 months he was a prisoner of the British.
March 14, 1654 Cornelis Evertsen Senior was appointed Rear Admiral .
Already in 1655 - commanded the Dutch squadron in the Mediterranean Sea.
During the Northern War in 1659, he became sub-commander of the RΓΌiter fleet. He participated in battles with Denmark and the removal of the siege of Nyborg by the Swedes.
In 1661 he was among the commanders of the Dutch Mediterranean fleet of RΓΌiter, who carried out punitive actions against Algerian corsairs . Evertsen and de Ruyter were close friends.
During the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665β1667), with the rank of vice admiral , the Schutbenhacht of North Holland, the commander of the 6th (Zeeland) squadron, participated in the Battle of Lowestoft , which took place on June 13, 1665 in the North Sea , near Lowestoft , between the fleets of England and The Dutch Republic .
For the last time he took part in the next major naval battle with England in June 1666.
On June 11, 1666, British Admiral George Monk discovered a Dutch squadron at Dunkirk . Despite the fact that the strength of Monk was significantly less (56 ships), he still decided to attack the Dutch.
The Dutch squadron had 71 battleships, 14 frigates, 5 mobilized yachts and 8 firemen. The vanguard of the Dutch was commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Cornelis Evertsen Sr. at the 70-gun Valjeren.
On the very first day of the famous Four-Day Battle, he was killed.
This was the most ambitious battle of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The British lost 10 ships, about one and a half thousand sailors were killed (including Vice Admirals Barclay and Mings), 1,450 were wounded, 2,000 people were taken prisoner, including the English Vice Admiral Eskew. Dutch losses were limited to 4 ships, 1,550 people were killed (including Lieutenant Admiral Cornelis Evertsen Sr., Vice Admiral Abraham van der Hulst and Rear Admiral Frederick Stauchauer ), 1,300 sailors were injured.
The defeat of the fleet along with the plague in London put England on the brink of defeat. The English fleet could no longer control neither the waters of Holland, nor the waters of Britain.
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