. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. akeel.; the Dutch accountinEev. Mar. et Col., Ixxxii. 137; Gumble, Life of Monck; Sir John HarmansAccount; Skinner, Life of Monck; Lettres et Mem. du Comte dEstrades; Philipscontinuation of Heaths Chi-onicle; Parker, Hist, of Own Time; A True Narrative,etc. London, 1666, fol. IGGC] THE FOUR DAYS FIGHT. The English undoubtedly lost very much more heavily. In additionto the Boyal Prince burnt, and the Swiftsure and Loyal Georgetaken, they certainly lost the Essex, 58, Clove Tree, 62, Con-vertine, 54, Bull, 40, Spread Eagle and
. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. akeel.; the Dutch accountinEev. Mar. et Col., Ixxxii. 137; Gumble, Life of Monck; Sir John HarmansAccount; Skinner, Life of Monck; Lettres et Mem. du Comte dEstrades; Philipscontinuation of Heaths Chi-onicle; Parker, Hist, of Own Time; A True Narrative,etc. London, 1666, fol. IGGC] THE FOUR DAYS FIGHT. The English undoubtedly lost very much more heavily. In additionto the Boyal Prince burnt, and the Swiftsure and Loyal Georgetaken, they certainly lost the Essex, 58, Clove Tree, 62, Con-vertine, 54, Bull, 40, Spread Eagle and Little Katherine, all ofwhich were carried home by the Dutch, besides two or three otherships which struck, and eight or ten more which were sunk orblown up ; and the number of their killed and wounded, placed byLefevre-Pontalis, in his Life of Jan de Witt, at five thousand, isprobably not exaggerated. Moreover they lost between two andthree thousand prisoners. The death of Berkeley on the first dayhas been already noted. The English also lost another flag-officer. DLTeH .MEDAL COMMEMOKATIVK OF THE FOUR BAYS FIGHT, IGGG.{From an original kindly lent by Captain Prince Louis of Battenberg, ) in the person of Vice-Admiral Sir Christopher Myngs, who hadhis flag in the Victorij, and who fell on the fourth day. Van denBosch narrates that, having received a ball through the throat,this gallant officer remained on deck a good half-hour, compressingthe wound with his fingers in order to stop the flow of blood, untila second shot struck him in the neck and killed him. Among theEnglish connnanders who fell during the long battle were CaptainsJohn Coppin of the St. George, Peter Mootham, of the Princess,AValter Wood, of the Henrietta, Henry Terne, of the Triumph,Philemon Bacon, of the Bristol, Thomas Whitty, of the Vanguard,Eoger Miller, of the PIijmouth, John Chappel, of the Clove Tree,^and Jeffery Dare, of the House of Swceds. Late Narjelhoom, Dutch prize. ^ Late Ilitin tc. Sw
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