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Collaart soon encountered the Dutch fleet of Van der Burch and Van Dorp, consisting of a combined twenty warships, and managed to damage four before the arrival of Quast's fleet forced Collaart to abandon the fight. In part due to bad weather, Collaart was able to escape to Dunkirk, arriving with 975
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From 1633 until 1637, Collaart served as Vice Admiral with the Royal Squadron operating out of Dunkirk and, in 1635, his attacks against Dutch herring redders would cost the city of
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Although the city of Dunkirk was under a Dutch blockade during early 1635, the blockade was temporarily weakened as several warships under Lieutenant-Admiral
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for ransom. A leading admiral over the next decade, he would have later encounters with other Dutch corsairs of the period including Captain
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and, on 14 August, Collaert sailing out of Dunkirk successfully broke through the Dutch blockade with a fleet of twenty-one vessels.
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He was responsible for the capture or destruction of at least 150 fishing vessels, bringing 945 captured sailors back to his base in
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On 19 August, after chasing off the six men-of-war escorts, Collaart's forces destroyed around 50 herring boats near
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Within three days, Collaart's fleet located a herring fleet numbering 160 under the guard of a single
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who ordered all available vessels to set out after the Collaart's fleet. Sailing from
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The Armada of Flanders: Spanish Maritime Policy and European War, 1568-1668
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The Armada of Flanders: Spanish Maritime Policy and European War, 1568-1668
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The following year, while sailing with two other privateers, Collaart and
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who escaped from him after sighting the corsair off the Spanish coast.
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After this latest attack, a Dutch fleet was soon raised by the
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were captured (the third captain managing to escape to an
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while the remaining 775 were held captive for ransom.
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Exercise of Arms: Warfare in the Netherlands, 1568-1648
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in August 1637. He had a son who was also a privateer,
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Index

Jacques Colaert

Piratical career
Dunkirker
Habsburg
Admiral
Dunkirk
Eighty Years' War
floruit
Flemish
privateer
Dunkirkers
Spanish Habsburg
Dutch Revolt
Dunkirk
Claes Compaan
Flushing (Vlissingen)
Philips van Dorp
Gulf of Biscay
man-of-war
Vlie
Doggersbank
Hamburg
Dutch Republic
States-General of the Netherlands
Rotterdam
Willem Codde van der Burch
Texel
Philips van Dorp
La Rochelle

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