Biography:
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 English military historian captain 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 disparaged the conduct of the Dutch army at these battles.
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