Adam | Adam Smith | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Viscount | Vickers Viscount | Adam and Eve | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | Adam Mickiewicz | Adam Sandler | William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe | viscount | Adam Lambert | Adam-12 | Adam Ant | Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley | Adam Faith | Adam Again | Isadora Duncan | Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham | Adam Michnik | William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim | Robert Adam | Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby | Duncan Sandys | Arne Duncan | Adam Sedgwick | Adam Savage | Adam (Bible) | William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne | Adam West |
This is because Adam Duncan (1 July 1731 - 4 August 1804), defeated the Dutch fleet off there on 11 October 1797 in the Battle of Camperdown.
The expedition was under the command of Admiral Adam Duncan and the Duke of York.
At Camperdown they met a much stronger British fleet under admiral Adam Duncan.
The Battle of Camperdown was an important naval action of the French Revolutionary Wars, fought off Camperduin on the North Holland coast on 11 October 1797 between a British fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan and a Dutch fleet under Vice-Admiral Jan de Winter.
In 1790 he took command of HMS Sheerness and in 1796 became flag captain of HMS Venerable under Admiral Adam Duncan and was heavily engaged at the Battle of Camperdown the following year.