The nations that fought them later squared off at Camperdown, but the last major one of these conflicts was limited to a skirmish off Dogger Bank and resulted in the cession of Negapatnam.
The nations that fought them later squared off at Camperdown, but the last major one of these conflicts was limited to a skirmish off Dogger Bank and resulted in the cession of Negapatnam. The second of them opened with the Battle of Lowestoft, featured the prolonged Four Days Battle, and ended when one nation's navy was obliterated by Michiel de Ruyter while docked at the River Medway. The Battle of Texel that decided the third one saw a fatal duel between rival commanders Edward Spragge and Corneilus Tromp. That third war was ended by the Treaty of Westminster and was prefaced by one nation's forging an alliance with France when the Secret Treaty of Dover was signed by Charles II. FTP, identify this series of four naval wars whose namesake combatants were Britain and the Netherlands.
The nations that fought them later squared off at Camperdown, but the last major one of these conflicts was limited to a skirmish off Dogger Bank and resulted in the cession of Negapatnam.
{Anglo-Dutch} Wars or {Engelse Oorlogen} (prompt on “Dutch Wars,” but I guess you can accept anything that mentions that the English and Dutch fought them up until Britain is mentioned)