 Willem Jan Knoop

Willem Jan Knoop (May 2, 1811 in Deventer – January 24, 1894 in The Hague) 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 disparaged the conduct of the Dutch army at these battles.