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** The Dutch sailing up the Medway river to London.
*** The Medway doesn't lead to London. The Dutch sailed to the English Navy's biggest shipyard/port, ran the gauntlet of the defensive forts, broke through the chain across the river, then attacked much of the English fleet docked there, unarmed and unmanned. Then they had the sheer balls to steal ships that they didn't sink, and take them back home as prizes.
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* [[Glorious Leader]] (Cromwell)
* [[The Kingdom]] (England)
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** In the first war, England was a republic as well.
* [[Upper Class Wit]] / [[Upperclass Twit]] : Charles II had traces of both.
* [[We ARE Struggling Together!]]: Arguably. At the time of the first war, England and the Netherlands were both radical revolutionary republics (by the standards of the time) in a sea of absolute monarchies, and had even considered uniting. What did they do? Go to war with each other.
* [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men]]
** Bizarrely to us, at this time the Dutch were considered more of a sailor race than the English. English naval commanders were even called "Generals-at-Sea" rather than admirals.
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