 Although the Medway raid was a costly and embarrassing defeat for the English, resulting in the loss of the English flagship it did not bring the success De Witt sought, as its effect politically was to help Charles II and his ministers to justify a third Dutch war.A planned Dutch attack on the English anchorage at Harwich led by De Ruyter had to be abandoned after the battle of Landguard Fort, at the close of the war.The Peace of Breda brought the war to an end.