Comments by "HaJo Os." (@hajoos.8360) on "The Raid on the Medway - Grand Theft Warship" video.

  1. The Dutch missed to conquer the Isle of Wight, so they could have used british warships at the Solent anchorage.
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  2. As Drachinifel mentioned the Dutch suffered not under their smaller ships, but in their lack of discipline which Blake introduced in the british navy. Each of the 7 dutch provincies had an own admiralty, a miserable federal structure. And the tactic to board those heavier british ships was only possible, when the Dutch gained a luv-position by easterly winds, a rare case. The Brits got their revenge for the Medway desaster, when de Ruyter fought in the battle of Augusta a second time in 1676, with his combined fleet of dutch and spanish ships against the French admiral Duquesne. The Spaniards did not followed de Ruyter's signal for close attack, so de Ruyter's squadron came under superiour attack by the French, and de Ruyter was mortally wounded. He was the greatest seaman of his time.
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  3.  @modernknightone  Ok 5 :-) it did change anything?
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  4.  @modernknightone  When the situation under the command of De Ruijters became worse, then, because other Dutch flag-officers produced bullshit.
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  5.  @martijnb5887  better would have been to follow De Ruijter's signals during the battle.
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