Jan van Brakel

Jan van Brakel
Bornc. 1618–1642
Rotterdam, Dutch Republic
Died10 July 1690
Beachy Head, United Kingdom
Allegiance Dutch Republic
BranchDutch State Navy
Service years1665–1690
RankRear admiral
Wars

Jan van Brakel (c. 1638 – 10 July 1690) was a Dutch States Navy officer who distinguished himself on many occasions during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Third Anglo-Dutch War and the Nine Years War.[1]

  1. ^ Bruijn, Jaap R. (2011). The Dutch navy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Liverpool University Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-78694-890-8. OCLC 1020066630.