Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen

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Dutch admiral (1735-1819)

PoliticiansLived 1735 to 1819 · aged 84

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Lieutenant-Admiral Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen, Count of Doggerbank was a Dutch naval officer who served in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

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Photos 4

1781 portrait of van Kinsbergen

1781 painting of the Battle of Dogger Bank by Thomas Luny

Cenotaph of Van Kinsbergen

Awards 7

Knight of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky

Order of Saint Anna, 1st class

Order of St. Andrew

Order of St. George, 3rd class

Order of St. George, 4th class

Order of Saint Stanislaus

Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of William

Connected to Jan 6

Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus KrayenhoffAlso won Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of William

Prince Christian of Hesse and by RhineAlso won Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of William

Hendrik Merkus de KockAlso won Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of William

Theodorus Frederik van CapellenAlso won Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of William

Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-EisenachAlso won Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of William

Leopold Karel, Count of Limburg StirumAlso won Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of William

About this person

Lieutenant-Admiral Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen, Count of Doggerbank 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.