Author: CRAANDIJK, P.H.,
Title: J.C.J. van Speyk. Eene herinnering uit de dagen van 1831. Voor het Nederlandsche volk geschetst door P.H. Craandijk. Uitgegeven ten voordele van de behoeftige oud-strijders van 1815 en 1830/32.
Description: Haarlem, De Erven F. Bohn, 1892, 24 pages, original paper softcover binding, enlarged offprint from De Militaire Gids, .Jan Carolus Josephus van Speijk, also written Van Speyk (31 January 1802 - 5 February 1831), was a Dutch naval lieutenant who became a hero in the Netherlands in 1831 for his opposition to the Belgian Revolution. He allegedly blew up his gunboat with its crew to prevent it being taken by the Belgian revolutionaries.

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