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	Raid on the Medway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Raid on the Medway, sometimes called the Battle of Medway or Battle of Chatham, was a successful Dutch attack on English ships and dockyards that took place in June 1667, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
		Sir Edward Spragge, the famous admiral, learned that a Dutch raiding party had come ashore on the Isle of Grain (a peninsula where the river Medway in Kent, meets the River Thames).
		The Dutch sailed on towards Rochester, where the inhabitants had fled into the countryside." Pepys visited the Castle on behalf of the Admiralty after the engagement and was forced to concede that the fort had been undergunned and -garrisoned.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Raid_on_the_Medway (1508 words)

	Encyclopedia: Rochester upon Medway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		This was not noticed by Medway Council until 2002; it has since written to the Queen asking for city status to be conferred again.
		Its castle was built to guard the river crossing, and the dockyard at Chatham was the key to the Royal Navy's long period of supremacy.
		Tophies from the raid are in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rochester-upon-Medway (1157 words)

	Battle of Medway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Medway (or River Medway) took place in AD 43 in the lands of the Iron Age tribe of the Cantiaci, now the English county of Kent.
		It was an early battle in the Claudian invasion of Britain, led by Aulus Plautius.
		Other theories however note that the river is narrow enough at Aylesford not to pose significant difficulties in crossing and place the battle closer to Rochester where a large iron age settlement stood at the time.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Medway (549 words)

	Gillingham, Medway - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Gillingham is a town in Kent in the United Kingdom, forming part of the Medway Towns conurbation.
		In 1665 a Dutch fleet sailed up the River Medway and having landed at Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey, laying siege to the fort at Sheerness, invaded Gillingham in what became known as the raid on the Medway.
		The town is now home to the Royal Engineers museum and the English Football League team Gillingham F.C. The marshland between the town and the River Medway's estuary is an important habitat protected as the Riverside Country Park.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Gillingham%2C_Medway (262 words)

	Medway Council - Local history: Medway in the 17th century 1603 - 1700
		The history of this period is dominated by the English Civil War, the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the restoration of his son to the throne.
		Some action was seen in Medway in June 1648, when a regiment of the Parliamentary army, under General Monk, advanced on the royalist forces which were holding Rochester.
		The Dutch Raid, Samuel Pepys’ account of the Dutch Raid on Medway 1667 with additional material by Peter Downton.
	www.medway.gov.uk /print/index/leisure/localhistory/timeline/17902.htm (200 words)

	Second Anglo-Dutch War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dutch however, enraged by the wanton destruction of over 150 merchant ships by the British vice-admiral Robert Holmes during his raid on the Vlie estuary in august 1666 and the following sacking of the island of Terschelling (Holmes's Bonfire), decided to repay this insolence first and end the war with a clear Dutch victory.
		In June, 1667, de Ruyter launched the Dutch "Raid on the Medway" at the mouth of the River Thames.
		After capturing the fort at Sheerness, they went on to break through the massive chain protecting the entrance to the Medway and, on the 13th, attacked the English fleet which had been laid up at Chatham.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Second_Anglo-Dutch_War (1551 words)

	rochester, england (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Rochester is a historic small city in Kent, located at the lowest bridging point of the River Medway approximately 30 miles (50 km) from London.
		The city also has revived the annual Sweeps' Festival, this is has ancient roots relating to the Green Man, and is celebrated by a large gathering of morris dance sides.
		Watling Street passes through the city, and to the south the Medway is bridged by the M2 motorway and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Rochester%2C_England.html (865 words)

	Gillingham, Medway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gillingham is a town in Kent in the United Kingdom, forming part of the Medway conurbation; it is a constituent of Medway unitary authority.
		Each of the Medway Towns formerly had a different status: Strood was a rural district council; Rochester a city; while both Chatham and Gillingham were boroughs.
		The dockyard was founded by Queen Elizabeth I on the site of the present gun wharf, the establishment being transferred to the present site about 1622.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gillingham%2C_Medway (974 words)

	dedication_to_medway_queen.htm
		Because the decks of Medway Queen were so much lower than the level of the mole, scaling ladders were erected as she came alongside.
		It happened that night that Medway Queen was hailed in English by a naval officer in a small motor vessel with instructions to proceed twelve miles up the coast where a pocket of troops had been cut off and were awaiting evacuation.
		Among the first to arrive off the beaches, Medway Queen was one of the last to leave Dunkirk and on the morning of Tuesday 4th June 1940, damaged, worn out and very weary, she limped into Dover.
	home.freeuk.com /lenknight/trialsite2/dedication_to_medway_queen.htm (4903 words)

	Rochester, Kent - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Rochester is a small, historic town in Kent, at the lowest bridging point of the River Medway about 30 miles (50 km) from London.
		Rochester has long been technically a city but was accidentally stripped of its centuries-old city status in 1998 due to a local government reorganisation.
		This could be the start of Medway's military shipbuilding history.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /rochester,_kent.htm (1161 words)

	Rochester, England
		Rochester-upon-Medway is a small, historic town in Kent, located at the lowest bridging point of the River Medway approximately 30 miles (50 km) from London.
		The town also has revived the annual Sweeps' Festival, this is has ancient roots relating to the Green Man, and is celebrated by a large gathering of morris dance sides.
		Watling Street passes through the city, and to the south the River Medway is bridged by the M2 motorway and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/rochester__england (1100 words)

	Raid on the Medway - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Charles II's fleet had already been reduced to accommodate the restrictions of recent expenditure and the Dutch seized their opportunity well.
		Sir Edward Spragge learned that a Dutch raiding party had come ashore on the Isle of Grain.
		The Dutch Admiral De Ruyter had after all captured Sheerness Fort a full two days prior to his invasion of the Medway, having broken through the heavy chain that was strung across the river representing its meagre outer defences.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Raid_on_the_Medway (1092 words)

	Michiel de Ruyter
		It was against this dreary background that the Dutch carried out their daring raid on the Medway in June 1667.
		The Raid on the Medway on the 10th – 14th June 1667.
		With the aid (it is sad to relate) of two renegade English pilots, the fort of Sheerness was captured on the 10th of June and Dutch troops were landed on Sheppey and the Isle of Grain.
	www.deruyter.org /CHATHAM_Dutch_in_the_Medway.html (2445 words)

	Rochester, Kent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Rochester-upon-Medway is a small, historic town in Kent, located at thelowest bridging point of the River Medway approximately 30 miles (50 km)from London.
		Watling Street passes through the city, and to the south the River Medway isbridged by the M2 motorway and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
		Tophiesfrom the raid are in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
	www.therfcc.org /rochester%2C-kent-84009.html (883 words)

	Gillingham, Medway -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		That road had been (additional info and facts about turnpiked) turnpiked in 1730, as part of the London– (A town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church) Canterbury coaching route.
		The Strand Leisure Park has an open-air swimming pool on the banks of the River Medway as well as other leisure facilities including tennis courts and a narrow-gauge railway ride.
		Gillingham is twinned with two Japanese cities, Ito and Yokosuka, the latter being the burial place of (additional info and facts about Will Adams) Will Adams one of Gillingham's most famous sons.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Gi/Gillingham,_Medway.htm (1016 words)

	Raid on the Medway
		Charles II's fleet had already been reduced to accomodate the restrictions of recent expenditure and the Dutch seized their opportunity well.
		Sir Edward Spragge was in command of the ships at anchor in the Medway and those off Sheerness, but the only ship able to defend against the Dutch was the Unity, a frigate stationed off the fort.
		The unremitting Dutch assault on the fort led it to be finally abandoned, it having been discovered that some 800 Dutch troops had landed about a mile away.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/r/ra/raid_on_the_medway.html (1089 words)

	Medway Council - Local history: The Dutch Raid
		In May 1667, the two sides met at Breda to discuss terms for a peace settlement.
		At the same time, however, a Dutch fleet, under the command of Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, was preparing to surprise the English navy as it lay moored in the river Medway.
		There was great panic in the Medway area and especially in and around the dockyard at Chatham, which was assumed to be the enemy’s ultimate target.
	www.medway.gov.uk /print/index/leisure/localhistory/timeline/17902/18452.htm (266 words)

	Raid on the Medway
		Sir Edward Spragge was in command of the ships at anchor in the river Medway and those off Sheerness, but the only ship able to defend against the Dutch was the Unity, a frigate stationed off the fort.
		The Unity was supported with a number of ketches and fire ships at Garrison Point, and the incomplete Fort of Sheerness where sixteen guns had been hastily placed.
		In a sketch made by John Evelyn on the hill above Gillingham the ships in the Medway were all recorded in detail, including the chain, with the Unity moored just below it, with the Charles V and Matthias moored just above it.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/raid_on_the_medway (1422 words)

	"The Dutch in the Medway" - notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		In June 1667 the Dutch navy sailed up the Thames to the naval shipyard of Chatham, which is situated on the North Kent coast at the estuary of the river Medway.
		Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch naval hero, and the admiral in charge of the raid on the Medway.
		The ‘topsails’ of a square-rigged ship were not, as the name would seem to suggest, the highest on a mast, but were in the middle.
	www.kipling.org.uk /kiplingsociety/rg_dutchmedway_notes.htm (358 words)

	Michiel de Ruyter
		In 1967, the tercentenary of the Medway raid, the English (one might almost say ‘typically’) commemorated this notorious naval defeat which they had suffered.
		In June a ‘River Medway Dutch Week’ was held, and of course the Dutch were invited to attend.
		The Dutch ambassador, in a message to the people of the Medway Towns, declared that it was a source of real satisfaction to know that three hundred years after a Dutch naval force had invaded the River Medway, an initiative had been taken along the banks of the same river to commemorate the event.
	www.deruyter.org /CHATHAM_Commemoration_in_1967.html (680 words)

	Upnor Castle Dutch Raid 1667
		Instead, a number of squadrons were to undertake various minor tasks, whilst defences were to be erected in the Medway, and at Harwich and Portsmouth to protect the main part of the fleet.
		In the river itself the three large men-of-war lay blazing, sending clouds of smoke billowing upwards, whilst in the middle of the Medway Dutch bug-boats and sloops plied hazardously up and down, encouraging their men in the fireships, and evacuating them when their task was done.
		During this trip, so Engel later recounted in his diary, planks were removed from a battery which the Dutch had previously destroyed; so it seems probable that the party landed at Gillingham and took the planks from the battery at that end of the chain.
	www.thevoid.plus.com /ucdumed.htm (11030 words)

	Michiel de Ruyter: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Michiel de Ruyter
		A year before the Second Anglo-Dutch War started he fought the English at the African coast, near Guinea.
		In the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-1667) his most famous battles were the Four Days Battle 1666 and the Raid at Medway[?] 1967.
		The Medway raid was a costly and embarrassing defeat for the English, bringing the Dutch close to London.
	www.encyclopedian.com /mi/Michiel-de-Ruyter.html (328 words)

	Rochester, England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The town was for many years the of Charles Dickens who lived nearby at Gads Hill fact that is celebrated in the annual Festival.
		Its castle was built to guard river crossing and the dockyards at Chatham were the key to the Royal Navy 's long period of supremacy.
		Rochester and its neighbours Chatham and Gillingham form a single large urban area as the Medway Towns with a population of about 250 However Rochester has always governed land on other side of the Medway in Strood in recent times included the parishes of Halling and Cliffe and the Hoo peninsula.
	www.freeglossary.com /Rochester,_England (992 words)

	What was the notorious Medway raid? in The AnswerBank: History & Myths
		The coastal defences of the Medway in 1666 were almost non-existent.
		On 27 February, the King and the Duke of York visited nearby Sheerness and made plans to build a strong fort to guard the mouth of the Medway.
		The English strengthened their Medway defences by sinking ships in the river to impede the enemy ships' progress.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article2216.html (506 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Velde’s The Raid on the Medway
		The Raid on the Medway by 17th-century Dutch painter Willem van de Velde the Younger depicts a sea battle in the second Anglo-Dutch War (1664-1667).
		On June 20, 1667, the Dutch fleet sailed up the Medway River and burned ships of the English Navy in a surprise attack on the naval dockyard at Chatham, England.
		The dense smoke of the burning English ships nearly fills the sky.
	encarta.msn.com /media_121631055/Veldes_The_Raid_on_the_Medway.html (78 words)

	HMS Royal Oak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The name refers to the Royal Oak in which Charles II of England hid himself during his flight from the country in the British Civil War.
		The first Royal Oak was a 76-gun second-rate launched in 1664 and burnt by the Dutch in 1667 in the Raid on the Medway.
		The second Royal Oak was a 70-gun third-rate launched in 1674, rebuilt in 1690, 1713, and 1741 (each of which may be considered a different ship), and broken up 1764.
	hms-royal-oak.area51.ipupdater.com (224 words)

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