The Raid on the Medway, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in June 1667, was a successful attack conducted by the Dutch navy on English warships laid up...
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Boom (navigational barrier) (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
blocking the Tiber A chain spanned the Golden Horn A chain and boom blocked the River Medway during the Raid on the Medway Hudson River Chain The chain blocking...
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were sunk. The Raid on the Medway, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in June 1667, was a successful attack conducted by the Dutch navy on English battleships...
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The Hague, had also painted individual portraits of both brothers, and The Apotheosis of Cornelis de Witt, with the Dutch Raid on the Medway in the background...
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Hans Willem van Aylva (category Admirals of the navy of the Dutch Republic)
and lieutenant general. In 1667 he participated in the Dutch Raid on Medway, as commander of the Frisian squadron. He was appointed a major general in...
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Michiel de Ruyter (category Admirals of the navy of the Dutch Republic)
1667, De Ruyter executed the highly successful Raid on the Medway, where he destroyed much of the English fleet and captured the English flagship HMS Royal...
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HMS Royal Charles (1655) (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
Ruyter in the St. James's Day Battle off the North Foreland. In 1667, flagging English national morale was further depressed by the Raid on the Medway in which...
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Upnor Castle (category Forts in Medway)
castle and the defences of the Thames and Medway were badly neglected during the 17th century. The Dutch Republic mounted an unexpected naval raid in June...
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Second Anglo-Dutch War (category 1665 in the Dutch Empire)
until the Dutch Raid on the Medway in June 1667 forced Charles II to make terms. The treaty eliminated a number of long-standing issues, and in the long-term...
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Look up Medway or Medway Towns in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Medway is a conurbation and unitary authority in Kent, South East England. Medway may also...
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