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Tag Archives: Second Anglo-Dutch War
Chatham and the failure of English Politics
400 years ago this week the British navy suffered a disaster after the Dutch Raid on the Medway. In this blog our Director, Dr Paul Seaward, discusses the parliamentary background to one of the worst defeats in British naval history… … Continue reading
