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Johan Arnold Bloys van Treslong (Steenbergen, 8 November 1757 – Amsterdam, 26 January 1824) was a Dutch naval officer and Patriot. He started his naval career in 1772 as midshipman with the Admiralty of the Maze. He served the Dutch Republic on the North Sea, in the West Indies and in the battle with islamic pirates in the Mediterranean. In 1781, he fought in the naval battle of Cape St. Mary under the command of Pieter Melvill van Carnbee, and from 1782 till 1787 he was commander of several ships in the Mediterranean. He was laid off in 1787 because of his support for the Patriots' faction. This ill-favouredness lasted until 1793. After the ringing defeat during the Battle of Camperdown in 1797 he was made a scapegoat, but his reputation was later restored. == The Battle of Camperdown (Kamperduin)== (詳細はship of the line ''Brutus'', Treslong escorted the squadron of commander-in-chief of the Batavian fleet, Vice admiral Jan Willem de Winter (1761–1812), as Schout-bij-nacht of the "White flag", on 7 October 1797. The committee of the Navy and the committee of Foreign Affairs had ordered the fleet to break the British blockade of the Dutch coast. At Camperdown, the Dutch fleet engaged a much stronger British fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan. Duncan acted in a manner that was imitated later by Nelson at Trafalgar; he thinned out the poorly coordinated and badly sailing Batavian fleet. The British ships set a perpendicular course towards the Batavian ships and shot them to pieces. The flagship ''Vrijheid'' (Freedom) was included (boxed in) by four British ships, and one after the other the Batavian ships were devastated by the excellently navigating and firing enemy. Bloys van Treslong could not reach the flagship because it was located against the wind, and because he was impeded by a burning and rudderless Dutch ship, the 74-gun ''Hercules''. A cannonball shattered the rear admiral’s right arm, which had to be amputated. The British fleet gained a sounding victory; ten Batavian ships were captured (among which were nine ships of the line), and there were almost 1400 Dutch casualties. On the English side, not one ship was lost, but more than 1000 casualties were counted. For the first time in history, a Dutch Admiral had lost his flagship. Admiral De Winter and his crew were taken prisoner and were brought to Great Yarmouth. The rear-guard under Bloys van Treslong, by then reduced to three heavily damaged ships, managed to sail to Hellevoetsluis. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Johan Arnold Bloys van Treslong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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