The Dutch in the Medway
Rogers, P. G. (Philip George)2017
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The daring raid on the Medway in June 1667, when the Dutch navigated the treacherous shoals and sandbanks of the Thames estuary and the Medway in order to attack King Charles's ships laid up below Chatham, was one of the worst defeats in the Royal Navy's history, and a serious blow to the pride of the English crown. Perhaps the greatest humiliation was the removal by the Dutch of the flagship Royal Charles, towed down river after the raid and taken back to Holland. The raid, intended to bring to an end English procrastination at the peace negotiations in Breda, was to cause simmering resentment and lead eventually to the Third Dutch War. P.G. Rogers' account of the raid, and its significance within the Second Anglo-Dutch War between Britain and the United Provinces of the Netherlands, is vividly told and he sheds much interesting light on the English navy of Pepys's day.
Main title:
The Dutch in the Medway / P.G. Rogers.
Author:
Rogers, P. G. (Philip George), author
Imprint:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Seaforth Publishing, 2017.
Collation:
216 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781473895683 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1120234
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