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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Anglo-Dutch Wars (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
in the harbour and bombarding its fort. The raid on the Medway led to widespread anger in England towards the government. This, together with the mounting...
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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)
Dutch military officer. 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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Willem Joseph van Ghent (category Admirals of the navy of the Dutch Republic)
landing, the Raid on the Medway, the success of which was mainly due to his merit. The English fleet was laid up at the docks on the Medway due to financial...
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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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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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Fire ship (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
fleet against the Spanish Armada during the Battle of Gravelines,: 7–11 the Dutch in the raid on the Medway, Chinese warlord Sun Quan in the Battle of Red...
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Third Anglo-Dutch War (category Wars involving the Dutch Republic)
sought to restore the damage to his prestige caused by the 1667 Raid on the Medway. Under the treaty, Charles also received secret payments which he hoped...
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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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Treaty of Breda (1667) (category Peace treaties of the Netherlands)
in England was increased by the June Raid on the Medway. Both factors led to a rapid agreement of terms. Prior to 1667, the Anglo-Dutch relationship had...
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1587. Similarly the Dutch executed the Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War and the Dutch Raid on North America during the Third Anglo-Dutch...
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Blockship (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
Zeebrugge raid in 1918 to prevent the port from being used by the German navy. An early use was in 1667, during the Dutch Raid on the Medway and their...
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Invasion of England (redirect from Invasion of the UK)
Scots) against the English Parliament, launching the Second English Civil War; defeated at Preston. The 1667 Dutch Raid on the Medway and Felixstowe Landguard...
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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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Johan de Witt (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
deputy-in-the-field for de Ruyter at the Raid on the Medway), particularly hated by the Orangists, was arrested on trumped-up charges of treason. He was...
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Sheerness (redirect from Sheerness-on-Sea)
repaired. The site was favoured by Samuel Pepys, then Clerk of the Acts of the navy, for shipbuilding over Chatham inland. After the raid on the Medway in 1667...
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1667 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
Denys is accused of murder). June 19–24 – The raid on the Medway in England is carried out when a fleet from the Dutch Republic under Admiral Michiel de...
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Statenvlag (category Flags of the Netherlands)
August 1653. Peter van de Velde (1643–1714), Raid on the Medway, 20 June 1667. Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633–1707), Battle of Texel, 21 August...
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HMS Royal Oak (category Set index articles on ships)
was a 76-gun second rate launched in 1664 and burnt by the Dutch in 1667 in the Raid on the Medway. HMS Royal Oak (1674) was a 70-gun third rate launched...
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Gillingham, Kent (redirect from Gillingham, Medway)
Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey and laying siege to the fort at Sheerness, invaded Gillingham in what became known as the raid on the Medway. The Dutch eventually...
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Chatham, Kent (redirect from Luton, Medway)
ineffectual; the Dutch raid on the Medway in 1667 showed that more defences were required. The fortifications, which became more elaborate as the threat of...
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The River Medway is a river in South East England. It rises in the High Weald, West Sussex and flows through Tonbridge, Maidstone and the Medway conurbation...
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Medway is a local government district with borough status in the ceremonial county of Kent, South East England. Its council, Medway Council, is a unitary...
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Aert Jansse van Nes (category Admirals of the navy of the Dutch Republic)
notable for commanding the second squadron in the raid on the Medway in 1667. He was born at Rotterdam. Three modern ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy...
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Battle of Solebay (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
Joseph van Ghent. The Dutch had hoped to repeat the success of the Raid on the Medway and a frigate squadron under Van Ghent sailed up the Thames in May but...
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Kent (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
all along the coast following the raid on the Medway, a successful attack by the Dutch navy on the shipyards of the Medway towns in 1667. The 18th century...
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