Michiel de Ruyter
Dutch admiral (1607-1676)
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A merchant captain who became the admiral England couldn't break. In three separate wars across two decades, de Ruyter held off combined English and French fleets, burned much of the Royal Navy in its own harbor, and stole the king's flagship — then sailed it home to Amsterdam.
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Michiel de Ruyter grew up in modest circumstances in Zeeland and was at sea early enough to captain merchant ships by thirty. A brief stint as rear admiral during Portugal's war for independence in 1641 led back to prosperous trading until the First Anglo-Dutch War pulled him into the navy under Maarten Tromp in 1652; he came out a vice admiral. Named fleet commander at the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1665, he won the brutal Four Days' Battle a year later, then executed the Raid on the Medway in 1667 — destroying the English fleet in its own anchorage and towing away HMS Royal Charl…
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