Dutch squadron departs the Texel
- When
- 27 December 1779
- Where
- Texel
Bylandt's squadron, escorting a convoy bound for France and the Mediterranean, left the Texel on 27 December 1779.
Schout-bij-nacht Lodewijk van Bylandt commanded one of the first Dutch convoys prepared in December 1779, bound for France and the Mediterranean, while a second convoy under Schout-bij-nacht Willem Krul sailed to the West Indies. The stadtholder had given written instructions that these convoys exclude ships transporting naval stores, as he understood the British defined those essentially as ships' timbers. Bylandt's squadron departed from the Texel on 27 December 1779.
Sources
- Affair of Fielding and Bylandt Wikipedia, revision of 2026-06-09
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