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Battle of the Kentish Knock

1652 CE · Europe · War

Battle of the Kentish Knock
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The Battle of the Kentish Knock was a naval battle between the fleets of the Dutch Republic and England, fought on 28 September 1652, during the First Anglo-Dutch War near the shoal called the Kentish Knock in the North Sea about thirty kilometres east of the mouth of the river Thames.

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