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unusual facts about Dutch Army



Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

In 1766 he became Major General and in 1772 lieutenant-general of the Dutch army.

Marinus Bernardus Rost van Tonningen

Marinus Bernardus Rost van Tonningen (October 24, 1852 in Paramaribo – January 7, 1927 in The Hague) was a Dutch Major General in the Dutch Army and the Royal Dutch East Indies Army.

Panzerhaubitze 2000

The PzH 2000 was used for the first time in combat by the Dutch Army in August 2006 against Taliban targets in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Medusa.


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Battle of Rocoux

The Battle of Rocoux (11 October 1746) was a French victory over an allied Austrian, British, Hanoveran and Dutch army in Rocourt (or Rocoux), outside Liège during War of the Austrian Succession.

Castricum

On 6 October 1799, a Franco-Dutch army under Guillaume Brune defeated an Anglo-Russian army under Ralph Abercromby and the Duke of York in the Battle of Castricum.

Ferdinand Willem, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt

Ferdinand Willem, Duke of Wurttemberg-Neuenstadt (September 12, 1659, Neuenstadt am Kocher – June 7, 1701, Sluis) was a general in the Dutch army.

Fokker D.XXI

Although the order by the ML-KNIL was cancelled, the Luchtvaartafdeling (Dutch Army Air Force before World War II) placed an order of 36 aircraft, which were all delivered in time to participate in the war against the Germans in May 1940.

Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg

After a time he retired to his family estate at Geisenheim on the Rhine, but in 1639 he re-entered the Dutch army, in which, apparently, apart from a few intervals at Geisenheim, he remained until about 1650.

King's Dutch Brigade

This battalion was commissioned in the new Dutch army on 1 December 1813 as the 10th Battalion of the Line; it arrived in Hellevoetsluis on 27 March 1814.

Puttee

The puttee was subsequently widely adopted by a number of armies including those of the British Commonwealth, the Chinese National Revolutionary Army, the Dutch Army, the French Army, the Imperial Japanese Army, the Italian Army, and the United States Army.

Rawagede massacre

Although Dutch Army General Simon Hendrik Spoor recommended that the responsible officer, Major Alphons Wijnen, be prosecuted, no criminal investigation was started.

William, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal

William served in the Dutch army as General of the Cavalry and Governor of 's-Hertogenbosch.