Willem Jan Knoop
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Willem Jan Knoop
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Willem Jan Knoop was a Dutch lieutenant-general, military historian, and politician. As a young captain of the Dutch General Staff he wrote a rebuttal of the British military historian William Siborne's account of the Battle of Quatre Bras and the Battle of Waterloo, published as History of the War in France and Flanders in 1815 in 1844, in which Siborne portrayed the conduct of the Dutch army at these battles as poor. Siborne's book had caused a furore in the Netherlands as Siborne was seen as
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