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The naval Battle of Portland, or Three Days' Battle, took place during 18–20 February 1653 (28 February – 2 March 1653 (Gregorian calendar)), [a] during the First Anglo-Dutch War, when the fleet of the Commonwealth of England under General at Sea Robert Blake was attacked by a fleet of the Dutch Republic under Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp escorting merchant shipping through the English ...
The English Civil War was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England [b] from 1642 to 1651. Part of the wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms , the struggle consisted of the First English Civil War and the Second English Civil War .
The Battle of Scheveningen, 10 August 1653, by Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten (c. 1654). In the centre, the artist shows Tromp 's flagship, the Brederode , surrounded by English warships. To the right, the two burning ships are probably the Andrew and the Triumph , which had been attacked from the weatherside by Dutch fireships.
21 March, Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold the last pitched battle of the First Civil War is a victory for the New Model Army; 13 April, Siege of Exeter ended with the surrender of Royalist garrison. 5 May, Charles surrendered to a Scottish army at Southwell, Nottinghamshire; 6 May, Newark fell to the Parliamentarians
In 1653 she was under the command of Captain Anthony Joyne was her commander. She partook in the Battle of Portland on 18 February 1653. [11] As a member of Blue Squadron, Rear Division she took part in the Battle of the Gabbard on 2–3 June 1653. [12] After being lengthened, she spent the winter 1653/54 at Harwich under the command of John ...
The term Wars of the Three Kingdoms first appears in A Brief Chronicle of all the Chief Actions so fatally Falling out in the three Kingdoms by James Heath, published in 1662, [7] but historian Ian Gentles argues "there is no stable, agreed title for the events....which have been variously labelled the Great Rebellion, the Puritan Revolution, the English Civil War, the English Revolution and ...
During the First Anglo-Dutch War she partook in the Battle of Portland on 18 February 1653. [5] As a member of Blue Squadron, Center Division she took part in the Battle of the Gabbard on 2–3 June 1653. [6] [7] She then sailed with Robert Blake's Fleet to the Mediterranean in August 1654.
The Battle of Scheveningen in 1653. The First Anglo–Dutch War was fought between 1652 and 1653. Battles were fought at Dungeness, Portland, the Gabbard and Scheveningen. In the last of these the Dutch commander Maarten Tromp was killed but his acting flag captain kept up fleet morale by not lowering Tromp's standard.