Arie: “He experienced 46 sea battles with Michiel de Ruyter. When De Ruyter died, Captain van Zijll was one of the pallbearers of his coffin. He died in Cuba from an illness, was embalmed, and then brought to Benschop. The monument contains cannons and other attributes that remind us that he was a naval hero.”
Cycle past Vincent van Gogh’s grandfather and Michiel de Ruijter’s pallbearer in Benschop
