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<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.net/images/stories/wiki.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />On this date in the year 1599, Witte Corneliszoon de With was born. His was a life spent at sea mainly in defense of Holland and rising through that countries naval ranks. Â He participated in many famous battles against the Spanish, Swedes and English until finally meeting his end, in typical fashion, whilst in battle.
<!--coloro: #000000 fontfamily #39webkitsansserif#39 lineheight 21px classApplestylespan--><span style="color: #000000 fontfamily #39webkitsansserif#39 lineheight 21px classApplestylespan"><!--/coloro-->He fell in November 1658 in the <!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sound" target="_blank">Battle of the Sound</a>, during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Wars" target="_blank">Northern Wars</a>, commanding the vanguard of the Dutch fleet relieving <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen" target="_blank">Copenhagen</a> from the Swedish, when his ship <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_ship_Brederode" target="_blank">Brederode</a> was grounded and surrounded by the enemy. He was first shot through the left thigh by a musket ball and hours later through the breast. When Swedish soldiers boarded the ship he refused to surrender his sword, wrestling with two of them on his knees and exclaiming: "I have faithfully wielded this sword so many years for Holland, so I won't give it up now to some common soldiers!". He collapsed, was brought to his cabin to recover, insisted on walking by himself over the gangplank to the Swedish ship, there collapsed again and died. He body was balmed on orders of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_X_of_Sweden" target="_blank">Charles X of Sweden</a> and displayed as a war trophy in the town hall of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsinore" target="_blank">Elsinore</a> by the Swedes, who January 1659 delivered his body to the Danish court in Copenhagen; after the Danes had paid their homage, it was transported to the Netherlands and buried with great pomp in Rotterdam on 7 October, in the church of St Lawrence, where the marble grave memorial, restored after being damaged by the German bombardment of 14 May 1940, can still be seen.
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<!--coloro: #000000 fontfamily #39webkitsansserif#39 lineheight 21px classApplestylespan--><span style="color: #000000 fontfamily #39webkitsansserif#39 lineheight 21px classApplestylespan"><!--/coloro-->He fell in November 1658 in the <!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sound" target="_blank">Battle of the Sound</a>, during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Wars" target="_blank">Northern Wars</a>, commanding the vanguard of the Dutch fleet relieving <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen" target="_blank">Copenhagen</a> from the Swedish, when his ship <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_ship_Brederode" target="_blank">Brederode</a> was grounded and surrounded by the enemy. He was first shot through the left thigh by a musket ball and hours later through the breast. When Swedish soldiers boarded the ship he refused to surrender his sword, wrestling with two of them on his knees and exclaiming: "I have faithfully wielded this sword so many years for Holland, so I won't give it up now to some common soldiers!". He collapsed, was brought to his cabin to recover, insisted on walking by himself over the gangplank to the Swedish ship, there collapsed again and died. He body was balmed on orders of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_X_of_Sweden" target="_blank">Charles X of Sweden</a> and displayed as a war trophy in the town hall of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsinore" target="_blank">Elsinore</a> by the Swedes, who January 1659 delivered his body to the Danish court in Copenhagen; after the Danes had paid their homage, it was transported to the Netherlands and buried with great pomp in Rotterdam on 7 October, in the church of St Lawrence, where the marble grave memorial, restored after being damaged by the German bombardment of 14 May 1940, can still be seen.
Read more about his life <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witte_Corneliszoon_de_With" target="_blank">HERE</a>Â
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