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	Battle of Scheveningen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Scheveningen, 10 August 1653 by Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten, painted c.
		The Battle of Scheveningen (also known as the Battle of Texel or the Battle of Ter Heijde) was the final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War.
		After their victory at the Battle of the Gabbard in June 1653 the English fleet of 120 ships under General at Sea George Monck blockaded the Dutch coast, capturing many merchant vessels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Scheveningen (332 words)

	Scheveningen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scheveningen is part of Den Haag, the Netherlands.
		The Battle of Scheveningen was fought between English and Dutch fleets off the coast of the village on 10 August 1654.
		In chess, the Scheveningen is a variation of the chess opening known as the Sicilian Defense, first played in a tournament in Scheveningen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scheveningen (432 words)

	Battle of the Gabbard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Battle of the Gabbard, 12 June 1653 by, shows the Dutch flagship Brederode, left, in action with the English ship Tredagh, the later HMS Resolution.
		The Battle of the Gabbard, also known as the Battle of Gabbard Bank or the Battle of the North Foreland, (12–13 June 1653) was a battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War between fleets of the Commonwealth of England and the United Provinces.
		The fleets met again on 8 August 1653 at the Battle of Scheveningen.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Battle_of_the_Gabbard (295 words)

	Michiel de Ruyter
		Soon after Tromp had been killed at the Battle of Scheveningen De Ruyter took over the command of the Dutch fleet.
		In the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-1667) his most famous battles were the Four Days Battle 1666 and the Raid on the Medway 1667.
		De Ruyter was fatally wounded in a battle against the French fleet near Messina in Sicily in 1676.
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/m/mi/michiel_de_ruyter.html (322 words)

	Famous Historic Battles
		The greatest battles fought by soldiers and warriors who have become infamous and immortal as a result of the great victories they achieved; their bravery, perseverance, determination, cunning, tactics, sacrifices and fortitude have written the stories of their battles and their names on the sand and winds of time.
		The battle was fought in the defile formed by the wood of Agincourt and that of Tramecourt, at the northern exit of which the army under d'Albret, constable of France, had placed itself so as to bar the way to Calais against the English forces which had been campaigning on the Somme.
		The closing scene of the battle was a half-hearted attack made by a body of fugitives, which led merely to the slaughter of the French prisoners, which was ordered by Henry because he had not enough men both to guard them and to meet the attack.
	www.mystical-sites.stevenredhead.com /Warriors/battles2.html (14493 words)

	Anglo-Dutch Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Dutch were also victorious at the Battle of Leghorn and had effective control of both the Mediterranean and the English Channel.
		In the final Battle of Scheveningen on 10 August 1653 Tromp was killed, a blow to Dutch morale, but the British had to end their blockade of the Dutch coast.
		In 1797 the Dutch fleet was defeated by the British in the Battle of Camperdown.
	www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Anglo-Dutch_Wars (1285 words)

	Robert Blake (admiral) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the Battle of the Gabbard on 12 June and 13 June 1653, Blake reinforced the ships of Generals Richard Deane and George Monck and decisively defeated the Dutch fleet, sinking or capturing thirty ships without losing one.
		The Channel was at last returned to English control, and the Dutch fleet was blockaded in various ports until finally losing at the Battle of Scheveningen, where Tromp was killed.
		Peace with the Dutch achieved, Blake sailed in October 1654 with 24 warships to the Mediterranean, successfully deterring the Duke of Guise from conquering Naples.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Robert_Blake_(admiral) (1325 words)

	Battle of Texel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of the Texel, 11/21 August 1673 by Willem van de Velde, the younger, painted 1683.
		The Dutch fleet of 75 ships and 30 fireships was commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral-General Michiel de Ruyter, with Lieutenant-Admirals Adriaen Banckert in charge of the van and Cornelis Tromp the rear.
		De Ruyter first decided not to leave his defensive position in the Schooneveld, from which he had successfully engaged the allied fleet in the double Battle of Schooneveld, but was ordered to do so by stadtholder William in order to save the Spice Fleet returning from the Indies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Texel (616 words)

	Dutch ship Brederode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of the Gabbard, 12 June 1653 by Heerman Witmont, shows the Dutch flagship Brederode, left, in action with the English ship Tredagh, the later HMS Resolution.
		She fought again on 18 February 1653 at the Battle of Portland and on 12 June 1653 at the Battle of the Gabbard, where she fought an exhausting but inconclusive duel with William Penn's flagship James.
		In the Battle of the Sound on 8 November 1658 the Dutch fleet, commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam, defeated a Swedish fleet and relieved the siege of Copenhagen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dutch_ship_Brederode (501 words)

	Battle of Scheveningen
		The Battle of Scheveningen or the Battle of Texel (8 - 10 August 1653) in the First Anglo-Dutch War resulted from the victory of the Commonwealth of England fleet at the Battle of the Gabbard in June 1653.
		The English used their earlier victory to impose a blockade[?] on the coast of the Netherlands.
		In the ensuing battles of early August the English force defeated and killed Tromp (10 August 1653), but ultimately had to withdraw to refit.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/Battle_of_Scheveningen.html (110 words)

	Battle of Scheveningen -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Battle of Scheveningen (also known as the Battle of Texel or the Battle of Ter Heide) was the final (A pitched battle between naval fleets) naval battle of the (Click link for more info and facts about First Anglo-Dutch War) First Anglo-Dutch War.
		After their victory at the (Click link for more info and facts about Battle of the Gabbard) Battle of the Gabbard in June 1653 the English fleet of 120 ships under General at Sea (Click link for more info and facts about George Monck) George Monck blockaded the Dutch coast, capturing many merchant vessels.
		Tromp was killed early in the battle by a sharpshooter in the rigging of (Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)) William Penn's ship.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/battle_of_scheveningen.htm (337 words)

	Battle of Dungeness -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The battle not only showed the folly of dividing forces while the Dutch still possessed a large fleet in home waters, but exposed "much baseness of spirit, not among the merchantmen only, but many of the state's ships".
		It seemed that the captains of hired merchant ships were reluctant to risk their vessels in combat, while the state's ships lacked the men to sail and fight them.
		By February 1653 the English were ready to challenge the Dutch control of the seas, resulting in the three-day (Click link for more info and facts about Battle of Portland) Battle of Portland.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Ba/Battle_of_Dungeness.htm (299 words)

	First Anglo-Dutch War - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the Battle of the Kentish Knock on 8 October 1652 the Dutch attacked the English fleet near the mouth of the river Thames, but were beaten back with severe losses.
		By February 1653 the English were ready to challenge the Dutch, and in the three-day Battle of Portland in March and the two-day Battle of the Gabbard in June drove the Dutch back to their home ports.
		The final battle of the war was the costly Battle of Scheveningen in August.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=First_Anglo-Dutch_War (1646 words)

	CHRONOLOGY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The battle was a major defeat for the English who lost 17 ships with some 8,000 casualties set against the 7 ships and 2,000 casualties suffered by the Dutch.
		To the west, a separate battle was fought between the two rear divisions under Admirals Cornelis Tromp and Jeremy Smyth with the English Admiral rapidly gaining the upper hand.
		The combined force of 92 ships sailed for Scheveningen but their attempt to land 6,000 troops was deterred by a smaller force of 60 ships under de Ruyter which had sailed from Schooneveldt.
	website.lineone.net /~d.bolton/Chron/chron.htm (1192 words)

	Battle Honours
		Two days of manoeuvring these vast fleets preceded the battle, which was joined at 4 am on 3 June, each fleet passing the other on opposite tacks, each ship engaging as the enemy ships came into range.
		This battle was fought between an English fleet of eighty-nine ships and seventeen fireships jointly commanded by Prince Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle, and a smaller Dutch fleet of eighty-five ships, twenty fireships and ten smaller vessels, all under the command of Admiral De Ruyter -the Dutch Nelson.
		This was the third battle in these waters and was in itself inconclusive, but the final outcome was to Britain's advantage.
	www.hms-tiger.co.uk /battle_honours.htm (2893 words)

	Naval Officers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		(30 guns) in 1673, and fought at the Schooneveld Battles and at the Battle of the Texel.
		(70 guns) at Schooneveld and the Battle of the Texel (Kijkduin), and was wounded and died at the last battle.
		At the Battle of the Texel, we assigned to Jan de Liefde's division.
	kentishknock.com /officers2.htm (3894 words)

	BHC0277 : The Battle of Scheveningen, 31 July 1653
		This grisaille or 'pen-painting' depicts the last battle of the First Dutch War, 1652-54, and is based on eyewitness sketches by the artist, who was present and has interpreted it as a success for the Dutch.
		Here the battle is shown towards its conclusion, and viewed from a high horizon as a continuous narrative, since several incidents which occurred at different times have been combined in the one drawing.
		The figure of a younger man stands to the left and his positioning indicates that he may either be an assistant or perhaps one of the artist's sons acting as an apprentice and learning through observation.
	www.nmm.ac.uk /mag/pages/mnuExplore/PaintingDetail.cfm?lettera=&ID=BHC0277 (1091 words)

	Witte Corneliszoon de With - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the Eighty Years' War against the Spanish he fought at the Battle of the Downs (1639), having become Vice-Admiral of Holland and West Frisia in 1637.
		In the First Anglo-Dutch War against the Commonwealth of England he commanded the Dutch fleet at the Battle of the Kentish Knock and fought in the Battle of Scheveningen.
		After the war he was denied command of the Dutch fleet because of his difficult personality.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Witte_de_With (386 words)

	Naval Officers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the Battle of Portland in mid-February 1653, John Mildmay distinguished himself as George Monck's flag captain on the
		At the Battle of the Gabbard, he was in James Peacock's Division (Vice-Admiral of the Red).
		At the Battle of the Gabbard, 12 and 13 June 1653, James Peacock was Vice-Admiral of the Red.
	kentishknock.com /officers3.htm (2983 words)

	Tromp Scheveningen Sea Beggars Maurits de Ruyter
		At the battle of Portland Bill in February, Tromp lost twelve of his warships and 43 merchant ships in the convoy he was escorting.
		At the battle of the Zuider Zee, in October 1573, many of the Spanish vessels, including the flagship 'Inquisition,' ran aground in the shallows.
		The battle left the city of Bossu and the Scheldt estuary in rebel hands.
	www.periclespress.com /Dutch_navy.html (3398 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Velde, van de (ii), §II: (1) Willem van de Velde I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He was present at the Battle of Scheveningen in 1653 and made drawings from the deck of his galliot (a small Dutch sailing vessel).
		He witnessed the Battle of the Sound in 1658, which is recorded in a grisaille (London, N. Mar. Mus.), and the defeat of the Dutch fleet at the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665.
		Battle pictures and military scenes, §2(ii): The 17th century to the late 18th: Naval battles
	www.artnet.com /library/08/0884/T088498.asp (340 words)

	Maarten Tromp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1639, in the Dutch struggle for independence from Spain, Tromp defeated a large Spanish fleet bound for Flanders towards the end of the Eighty Years' War at the Battle of the Downs.
		In the First Anglo-Dutch War of 1652–1653 Tromp commanded the Dutch fleet in the battles of Dungeness, Portland, the Gabbard and Scheveningen, in which he was killed by a sharpshooter in the rigging of William Penn's ship.
		His acting flagcaptain Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer kept up morale by not lowering Tromp's standard, pretending the commander of the fleet was still alive.
	www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Maarten_Tromp (400 words)

	George Monck 1608-70
		Cromwell appointed him to the council of war that planned the battle of Dunbar on 3 September, during which Monck led a brigade of infantry in an attack on the Scottish centre.
		After Deane was killed at the battle of North Foreland and Blake was forced to return to England to recover from his wounds, Monck took command of the English fleet, imposing a total blockade on Dutch ports and bringing Dutch commerce to a standstill.
		When the Dutch attempted to break the blockade in July 1653, Monck was victorious at the battle of Scheveningen, the deciding battle of the war, during which the Dutch admiral Maarten Tromp was killed.
	www.british-civil-wars.co.uk /biog/monck.htm (1853 words)

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		battle of Rathmines, massacre at Drogheda and the conquest of Ireland
	www.casahistoria.net /events.htm (1466 words)

	Battle of Goodwin Sands -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The (Click link for more info and facts about English Parliament) English Parliament had passed the first of the (Click link for more info and facts about Navigation Acts) Navigation Acts in October 1651, aimed at hampering the shipping of the highly trade-dependent Dutch.
		Blake then fired a broadside in anger and a five hour battle ensued.
		Both fleets were damaged, but as darkness fell the Dutch fleet withdrew in a defensive line to protect the convoy, and the English captured two Dutch stragglers, one of which later sank.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Ba/Battle_of_Goodwin_Sands.htm (295 words)

	Royal Navy: History
		Commissioned at Devonport on 3 May 2001, HMS PORTLAND is the eighth RN warship to bear the name, her forebears being five fourth rate vessels, a converted river barge and a minesweeper.
		She earned another prize from the French on 9 February 1746 in the form of the 50 gunner AUGUSTE which was renamed PORTLAND’S PRIZE and enjoyed several years of successful service in her own right.
		She survived the Seven Years War although sustained major damage at the loss of Minorca to the French in May 1756 and later earned battle honours at Lagos and at Quiberon Bay.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /static/pages/2553.html (930 words)

	Battle of Scheveningen - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Battle of Scheveningen - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		His death was kept secret in an attempt to keep up the morale of the Dutch, but by the late afternoon thirty ships had been sunk or severely damaged and the Dutch were forced to retreat to the Texel.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Battle of Scheveningen contains research on
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