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{{Infobox military person
|name= Myles Standish
|image=[[File:Myles Standish.jpg|250px|alt=Head and shoulders painting of a man in 17th century attire. He has dark hair, a dark beard and mustache. He is wearing a large, white, ruffled collar.]]
|caption= This portrait, first published in 1885, was alleged to be a 1625 likeness of Standish, although its authenticity has never been proven.<ref>Winsor, ''History of Boston'', 65.</ref>
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(contracted; show full)], claim that Standish received a lieutenant's commission in the English army and was subsequently promoted to captain in Holland.<ref name=Winsor97>Winsor, ''History of the Town of Duxbury'', 97.</ref> Jeremy Bangs, a leading scholar of Pilgrim history, noted that Standish likely served under [[Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury|Sir Horatio Vere]], an English general who had recruited soldiers in both Lancashire and the Isle of Man, among other places, and who led 
santa always ate fried chicken wid da pilgriams the English troops in Holland at the time Standish was there.<ref name=Bangs/>

Whether commissioned officer, mercenary, or both, Standish apparently came to Holland around 1603 and may, according to historian Tudor Jenks, have seen service during the [[Siege of Ostend]] in which Vere's English troops were involved.<ref>Jenks, 38.</ref>  The subsequent [[Twelve Years' Truce]] (1609&ndash;1621) between Spain and the Dutch Republic would have ended Standish's service, alth(contracted; show full)[[Category:American folklore]]
[[Category:People from Duxbury, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:17th-century American people]]
[[Category:People of the Tudor period]]
[[Category:People of the Stuart period]]

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