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See also:BART, See also:JEAN (1651-1702) , See also:French See also:naval See also:commander, son of a fisherman, was See also:horn in See also:Dunkirk on the 21st of See also:October 1651. He served when See also:young in the Dutch See also:navy, but when See also:war See also:broke out between See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. and See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland in 1672 he entered the French service. He gained See also:great distinction in the Mediterranean, where he held an irregular sort of See also:commission, not being then able from his See also:low See also:birth to receive a command in the navy. His success was so great, however, that he was made a See also:lieutenant in 1679. He See also:rose rapidly to the See also:rank of See also:captain and then to that of See also:admiral. The See also:peace of See also:Ryswick put a See also:close to his active service. Many anecdotes are narrated of the courage and blunt• ness of the uncultivated sailor, who became the popular See also:hero
of the French naval service. The See also:town of Dunkirk has honoured his memory by a statue and by naming a public square after him.
See Richer, See also:Vie de Jean Bart (1780), and many See also:editions since; Vanderest, Histoire de Jean Bart.
End of Article: BART, JEAN (1651-1702)
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