. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. ntained ontheir behalf that, having gained the wind, they chased throughoutthe night of the 25th. Yet, be this as it may, on the morningof the 26th, Smyth had the wind once more, and was in chase ofTromp, who had somehow learnt in the interval that his friendshad suffered defeat, and that part of them had taken refuge in theWielings. Smyth chased hard all day. Rear-Admiral Govert THoen Avas killed. In the evening Albemarle and Rupert, far toleeward and unable to interfere, saw Tromp flying for his ports,with Smyth at his heel
. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. ntained ontheir behalf that, having gained the wind, they chased throughoutthe night of the 25th. Yet, be this as it may, on the morningof the 26th, Smyth had the wind once more, and was in chase ofTromp, who had somehow learnt in the interval that his friendshad suffered defeat, and that part of them had taken refuge in theWielings. Smyth chased hard all day. Rear-Admiral Govert THoen Avas killed. In the evening Albemarle and Rupert, far toleeward and unable to interfere, saw Tromp flying for his ports,with Smyth at his heels. At 11 on the 26th the English 282 MAJOR OPERATIONS, 1660-1714. [1666. van and centre anchored off the Dutch coast. On the followingmorning, when Smyth rejoined, he reported that his enemy hadescaped, and, with such shattered force as remained to him, wassafe behind the shoals. Such w^as the St. Jamess Fight, or, as some have called it,the second battle of the North Foreland. It was a brilliant anddecisive English victory. The Dutch lost about twenty REAR-ADMIRAL SIR ROBERT HOLMES, KT. (From the original in the jjossession of Lord Meijtcsbunj.) four thousand killed, and three thousand wounded, and, in additionto the four flag-officers already mentioned, numerous captains,including Euth Maximiliaan, Hendrik Vroom, Cornells van Hogen-hoeck, Hugo van Nijhoff, and Jurriaan Poel. The victors, on theother hand, lost only the Besolution and two or three fireships,^ ^ Although De Euijter, in his dispatch of July 26th, says that two English shipshad been seen to sink, and that two more had been burnt. 1660.] SIB ROBERT HOLMES IN THE VLIE. 283 and a relatively small number of men.^ Xo flag-officers fell, andthe only captains who lost their lives seem to have been HughSeymour, of the Foresight, John Parker, of the Yarmouth, JosephSanders, of the Breda, Arthur Ashby, of the Guinea, and WilliamMartin of the hired East Indiaman London. The Dutch dismissed Tromp,^ superseding h
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