Jan Jacobsen (English service)

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Type Privateer Rank Captain Battles/wars Second Anglo-Dutch War Battles and wars Second Anglo-Dutch War		Years active 1660s Base of operations Dunkirk Died 1667 Allegiance England
Born fl. 1665 Flanders

Jan Jacobsen (fl. 1665–1667) was a mid-17th-century Flemish-born Dutch corsair and privateer. Operating out of France with other Dunkirkers such as Karel Verburg and Jan Jansen Gouverneur, he acted on behalf of England during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in the mid-1660s.

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