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The Four Days' Battle [a] was a naval engagement fought from 11 to 14 June 1666 (1–4 June O.S.) during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. It began off the Flemish coast and ended near the English coast, and remains one of the longest naval battles in history. The Royal Navy suffered significant damage, losing around twenty ships in total.
In the initial stages of the Four Days' Battle, fought from 11 to 15 June, the Dutch inflicted heavy damage on their opponents, before the return of the detached squadron forced them to withdraw. The English lost ten ships compared to only four Dutch, but any hope the Royal Navy was too damaged to renew hostilities soon proved incorrect. [56]
The Four Days of Naples (Italian: Le quattro giornate di Napoli) is a 1962 Italian film, directed by Nanni Loy and set during the uprising (28 September 1943 to 1 October 1943) which gives its name. It stars Regina Bianchi , Aldo Giuffrè , Lea Massari , Jean Sorel , Franco Sportelli , Charles Belmont , Gian Maria Volonté and Frank Wolff .
1666 in England was the first year to be designated as an Annus mirabilis, in John Dryden's 1667 poem, which celebrated England's failure to be beaten either by fire (the Great Fire of London) or by the Dutch.
Four Days may refer to: Four Days (1951 film) , a British film directed by John Guillermin Four Days (1999 film) , a Canadian film directed by Curtis Wehrfritz
English: The Four Days Fight, 1-4 June 1666 An incident during the second year of the Second Dutch War, 1665-67. It was fought in the southern North Sea between an English fleet of fifty-six ships under the command of the Duke of Albermarle and a larger Dutch fleet commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter.
After the Dutch had inflicted enormous damage on the English fleet in the Four Days Battle of 1–4 June 1666 which is normally considered a Dutch victory, [3] the Dutch leading politician grand pensionary Johan de Witt ordered Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter to carry out a plan that had been prepared for over a year: to land in the Medway to destroy the English fleet while it was being ...
The Four Day War may refer to: ... Four Days' Battle; Four Days of Naples; 100 Hour War, also known as the Football War This page was last edited ...