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JEAN BART (1651-1702)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 447 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:BART (1651-1702)  , See also:French See also:naval See also:commander, son of a fisherman, was See also:horn in See also:Dunkirk on the 21st of See also:October 1651 . He served when See also:young in the Dutch See also:navy, but when See also:war See also:broke out between See also:Louis XIV. and See also:Holland in 1672 he entered the French service . He gained See also:great distinction in the Mediterranean, where he held an irregular sort of See also:commission, not being then able from his See also:low See also:birth to receive a command in the navy . His success was so great, however, that he was made a See also:lieutenant in 1679 . He See also:rose rapidly to the See also:rank of See also:captain and then to that of See also:admiral . The See also:peace of See also:Ryswick put a See also:close to his active service . Many anecdotes are narrated of the courage and See also:blunt• ness of the uncultivated sailor, who became the popular See also:hero of the French naval service . The See also:town of Dunkirk has honoured his memory by a statue and by naming a public square after him . See Richer, See also:Vie de See also:Jean See also:Bart (1780), and many See also:editions since; Vanderest, Histoire de Jean Bart .

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