About Pieter de Bitter
Lived 1620 – 1666 (aged 45–46). Pieter de Bitter was a Dutch military personnel.
Pieter de Bitter (15June 1666) was a 17th-century Dutch officer of the Dutch East India Company (, commonly abbreviated to VOC). On 12August 1665 (New Style) he won the Battle of Vågen against an English flotilla commanded by Thomas Teddeman.
Early years in the VOC Of Pieter de Bitter's early life and career nothing is known. His name first emerges in 1653, when during the First Anglo-Dutch War he is mentioned as the captain of the , a vessel of forty cannon of the Dutch East India Company, that had been allocated to the squadron of Commodore Michiel de Ruyter, just prior to the Battle of Scheveningen.
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Who was Pieter de Bitter?
Dutch naval officer
When was Pieter de Bitter born?
Pieter de Bitter was born in 1620.
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Pieter de Bitter died on 15 June 1666.
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Pieter de Bitter was a military personnel.
What nationality was Pieter de Bitter?
Pieter de Bitter was Dutch.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Pieter de Bitter. https://biography.guide/pieter-de-bitter/
MLA: "Pieter de Bitter." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/pieter-de-bitter/.
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