Jacob Binckes

The next year, he helped to secure the River Elbe in northern Germany, near Glückstadt, in the interest of Dutch merchant shipping.

With his frigate Essen (including 25 marines) Jacob Binckes is part of the taskforce on the Medway.

In 1673 together with vice-admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jongste ("Keesje the Devil") he burned part of the Virginia tobacco fleet in the Second Battle of the James River (1673) before they recapture the former New Netherland capital New Amsterdam, which had been renamed New York after it had surrendered in 1664.

During the second battle a mortar hit the powder storage inside Fort Sterreschans and killed Jacob Binckes and many others.

The person Jacob Binckes and the second battle at Tobago served as basis for the character Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe.