2-715-759 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Dutch in the Medway: De Ruyter's Attack on Upnor Castle', 1667, (1890). Dutch Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in June 1667, under the command of Willem Joseph van Ghent and Michiel de Ruyter, was one of the worst defeats in the British Royal Navy's history. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. IV - Modern History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]