Military
- Maarten Tromp (1598–1653), admiral
- Cornelis Tromp (1629–1691), admiral, commander-in-chief of the Dutch and Danish navies
- Michiel de Ruyter (1607–1676), admiral in the Anglo-Dutch Wars
- Cornelis Jol (1597–1641), admiral and privateer
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
““My ancestors were all famous for military genius.”
My Lady smiled graciously. “It often runs in families,” she remarked: “just as a love for pastry does.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)