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    The Battle of Lowestoft took place on 13 June [O.S. 3 June] 1665 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. A fleet of more than a hundred ships of the United...
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    Lowestoft (/ˈloʊ(ɪ)stɒft, ˈloʊstəf/ LOH-(ih)-stoft, LOH-stəf) is a coastal town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. As the...
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    that participated in the Battle of Lowestoft, a naval engagement between the English and Dutch off the English port of Lowestoft on 13 June (New Style)...
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    HMS Gloucester (1654) (category Speaker-class ships of the line)
    participated in the British invasion of Jamaica (1655), and in the Battle of Lowestoft (3 June 1665). During 1666 she formed part of the fleet that attacked a Dutch...
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    on standing instructions to fight in line. In the Battle of Lowestoft and the St. James's Day Battle, the English fighting in line ahead defeated the Dutch...
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    HMS Royal Charles (1655) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    the Battle of Lowestoft under the command of the Lord High Admiral, James Stuart, Duke of York, her captain being Sir William Penn. During that battle she...
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    Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer (category Admirals of the navy of the Dutch Republic)
    an admiral of the United Provinces of the Netherlands who was killed in the Battle of Lowestoft. Kortenaer was born in 1604 in Groningen of humble origins...
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    The Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft, often referred to as the Lowestoft Raid, was a naval battle fought during the First World War between the German...
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    John Harman (admiral) (category Royal Navy personnel of the First Anglo-Dutch War)
    Plague of 1665-66 and the Great Fire of London in September 1666. The war was concluded by the Treaty of Breda on 21 July 1667. The Battle of Lowestoft was...
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  • by England at Battle of Portland in 1653, renamed Great Charity; retaken by the Dutch at Battle of Lowestoft in 1665. With the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Dutch...
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    Cornelis Tromp (category Admirals of the navy of the Dutch Republic)
    1665; at the battle of Lowestoft, he prevented total catastrophe by taking over fleet command to allow the escape of the larger part of the fleet. Gaining...
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    London. The paintings are of prominent naval officers, most of them of flag rank, who had fought at the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665. Lely at the time...
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    the capture of New Amsterdam (renamed New York in honour of Charles's brother James, Duke of York) and a victory at the Battle of Lowestoft, but in 1667...
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    George Ayscue (category Royal Navy personnel of the First Anglo-Dutch War)
    the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665.[citation needed] In February 1666, he was appointed Admiral of the Blue and at the start of the Four Days' Battle in June...
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    first known written use of the phrase in an English text. The first event of the miraculous year was the Battle of Lowestoft fought by English and Dutch...
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    English ship Prince Royal (1610) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    Battle of Lowestoft on 3 June. A year later in 1666, she was Vice-Admiral George Ayscue's flagship in the Four Days Battle, on the third day of which (3...
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    HMS Royal Katherine (1664) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    as part of series 5 of The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Royal Katherine participated in the Second Anglo-Dutch War fighting in the Battle of Lowestoft on 13 June...
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    Dutch ship Eendracht (1655) (category Ships of the line of the Dutch Republic)
    12-pdrm eighteen 6-pdrs and four 2-pdrs. In the Battle of Lowestoft on 13 June 1665, the first battle of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, Eendracht, then armed...
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    was the worst defeat in Dutch naval history with the exception of the Battle of Lowestoft; strategically the defeat threatened to be disastrous. The victory...
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    Philips van Almonde (category Admirals of the navy of the Dutch Republic)
    He was appointed lieutenant in 1664 by the Admiralty of the Maze. During the Battle of Lowestoft in the Second Anglo-Dutch War he in 1665 took over command...
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  • 1644 – English Civil War Battle of Lowestoft – 1665 – Second Anglo-Dutch War Battle of Łowicz – 1656 – The Deluge Battle of Lugou Bridge (a.k.a. Incident...
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    Battle of Lowestoft in 1665. He was unmarried and was succeeded by his uncle, William Ley, the fourth Earl. William married Miss Hewet, daughter of Sir...
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  • Dutch ship Eendracht (1666) (category Ships of the line of the Dutch Republic)
    June 1665 at the Battle of Lowestoft. The new ship was the flagship of Lieutenant-Admiraal Aert van Nes at the Four Days' Battle of 1666 and at the subsequent...
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  • list of orders of battle, which list the known military units that were located within the field of operations for a battle or campaign. The battles are...
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    William Penn (Royal Navy officer) (category English people of Welsh descent)
    flag captain at the Battle of Lowestoft (1665), serving under James, Duke of York, and later in the same year was admiral of one of the fleets sent to...
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  • June 1665 - Battle of Lowestoft 7 June 1672 - Battle of Solebay This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Battle of Southwold Bay...
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    HMS Royal James as his flagship. As the commander of the White Squadron, Rupert fought at the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665, breaking through the enemy defences...
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  • HMS Assistance (1650) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    the Battle of Santa Cruz and the bombardment of Porto Farina, In the Second Anglo-Dutch War she was involved in the Battle of Lowestoft, Battle of Vagen...
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    Thomas Teddeman (category Royal Navy personnel of the Second Anglo-Dutch War)
    Anglo-Dutch War, he distinguished himself as rear admiral of the Blue Squadron in the Battle of Lowestoft, with as flagship the new second rate HMS Royal Katherine...
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    Johan de Witt (category People of the War of Devolution)
    the Battle of Lowestoft, he temporarily took command of the fleet himself. As a remedy for his seasickness, Christiaan Huygens, the inventor of the pendulum...
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