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  • Mr. Tromp's Canadian FOI Resource Website offers links to more material including a World FOI Chart and an index of global freedom of information rulings.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2008

  • Mr. Tromp's Canadian FOI Resource Website offers links to more material including a World FOI Chart and an index of global freedom of information rulings.

    Canada's Access Laws in Crisis Says Freedom of Information Report Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2008

  • The PAC says Tromp's inclusion in the Springbok team hinders reconciliation and nation building.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • After 1973, the Defense Department told Tromp's parents that his original status of Prisoner of War had been "wrong", and he was reclassified Missing

    Tromp, William L. 1966

  • The rear divisions, Tromp's and Jeremy Smith's ships, did not follow the general movement, for Tromp had never quite lost the advantage he had gained in the opening stage of the battle.

    Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

  • If England had not wanted a brush with the Dutch, that broom would never have been nailed to Tromp's masthead.

    Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

  • This raised rather than lowered Blake's prestige and gave him an opportunity of pointing out to his Government that it was unfair to expect our reinforced merchant vessels to fight Tromp's battleships and he insisted if he was expected to retain his command, that sufficient battleships should be built to overthrow the Dutch, and the Dutch had mobilized 150.

    The Lessons of Naval History 1934

  • The English van and center succeeded in forcing the corresponding Dutch divisions to retreat, and if Monk had turned to the help of Smith he might have taken or destroyed all of the 39 ships in Tromp's division.

    A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916

  • As Tromp's chief business was to save his convoy and as the English force was now united, he took

    A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916

  • Penn tacked right through Evertsen's squadron to come to the side of Blake, and Lawson foiled de Ruyter by bearing away till he had enough southing to tack in the wake of Penn and fall upon Tromp's rear

    A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916

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