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...Others: Holland's Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck, Italy's Giovanni Gabrielli, Claudio Monteverdi and Girolomo Frescobaldi...
...heroes: Admiral Martin Harpertzoon Tromp, who fought the Spaniards and the British with equal ferocity and died with a British musket ball in his heart; his subordinate and student, Michel de Ruyter, whose conquering fleet once sailed up the Medway to within 30 miles of London; Vice Admiral Pieter Pieterzoon Hein, a splendid buccaneer who earned fame, plunder and death at the hands of Dunkirk pirates. These and other 17th-Century seadogs won for the Dutch the empire whose rich remnants Conrad Helfrich had to defend...
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