Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen
Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen was born on May 1, 1735. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen
Lieutenant-Admiral Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen, Count of Doggerbank (1 May 1735 – 24 May 1819) was a Dutch naval officer who served in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Having had a good scientific education, Van Kinsbergen was a proponent of fleet modernization and wrote several books about naval organization, discipline and tactics. In 1773, he twice defeated the Ottoman Navy while serving in the Imperial Russian Navy. Returning to the Dutch Republic in 1775, he fought in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War and eventually attained the position of…