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Battle of Lowestoft

1665 CE · Europe · War

Battle of Lowestoft
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The Battle of Lowestoft took place on 13 June [O. S. 3 June] 1665 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. A fleet of more than a hundred ships of the United Provinces commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer, Lord Obdam, attacked an English fleet of equal size commanded by James, Duke of York, forty miles east of the port of Lowestoft in Suffolk.

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