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The Siege of Dunkirk was a siege commenced by France under the command of Louis, le Grand Condé with naval support of the Dutch Republic under the command of admiral Maarten Tromp, who were able to blockade the city to help Condé's siege.
In 1652, Spanish forces recaptured the city and the Dunkirkers once again became a major threat. The Dunkirkers harassed English trade after England resumed hostilities against Spain in 1657, before Dunkirk was captured by a Franco-English force in 1658. [5] Ostend then became their most important port.
Map of Fort-Mardyck in 1646, by Joan Blaeu. At the same time that the Spanish squadron sailed out the Splinter off Mardyck at 8 PM with very little wind, Tromp's 12 vessels were anchored in the Dunkirk Roads. [10] They set sail and ran westwards between the brakes and the Splinter, intercepting the Spanish squadron between Mardyck and ...
Dunkirk (Dutch for 'Church in the dunes') was a strategic port on the southern coast of the English Channel in the Spanish Netherlands that had often been a point of contention previously and had changed hands a number of times. Privateers operating out of Dunkirk and other ports had cost England some 1,500 to 2,000 merchant ships in the past ...
The following month the Spanish attempted to retake the fort one last time but the English garrison managed to repel the assault. [5] After having bought Dunkirk and the fort of Mardyck from the English in 1662, King Louis XIV of France ordered that the fort be dismantled.
The city along with Fort-Mardyck was awarded to England in the peace the following year as agreed in the Franco-English alliance against Spain. The English governors were Sir William Lockhart (1658–60), Sir Edward Harley (1660–61) and Lord Rutherford (1661–62). On 17 October 1662, Dunkirk was sold to France by Charles II of England for £ ...
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The Battles of La Naval de Manila or Battle of Manila Bay (Spanish: Batallas de las marinas de Manila) were a series of five naval battles fought in the waters of the Spanish East Indies in the year 1646, in which the forces of the Spanish Empire repelled various attempts by forces of the Dutch Republic to invade Manila, during the Eighty Years' War.