. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. ut a breath tofan them into flame. The breath was apphed very soon after theEestoration. Complaints reached England of high-handed actionby the Dutch East and West India Companies, of the seizure ofEnglish ships, of interference with Enghsh trade in remote regions,and of omission on the part of the Dutch to carry out certain stipu-lations of the treaty—notably, those for the handing over of CapeCoast Castle, on the Gold Coast, and of Pulo Eon, in the EastIndia Archipelago. These acts of the Dutch led to the making of 1664.] T
. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. ut a breath tofan them into flame. The breath was apphed very soon after theEestoration. Complaints reached England of high-handed actionby the Dutch East and West India Companies, of the seizure ofEnglish ships, of interference with Enghsh trade in remote regions,and of omission on the part of the Dutch to carry out certain stipu-lations of the treaty—notably, those for the handing over of CapeCoast Castle, on the Gold Coast, and of Pulo Eon, in the EastIndia Archipelago. These acts of the Dutch led to the making of 1664.] THE QUARREL WITH HOLLAND. 255 reprisals, chiefly under the direction of Commodore (afterwardsAdmiral Sir) Bobert Holmes, an account of whose proceedings willbe found in the next chapter. The tension between the twocountries w^as intensified, on the one side, by the discovery of aDutch project for seizing Gormantyne, an Enghsh fort, and, on theother, by the Enghsh capture of New Amsterdam, now New York,which Holmes took, not merely by way of reprisals, but also in. JAMES, DUKE OF yOKK, LOUD HIGH ADMIRAL(aFTEKWARDS JAMES II.). {After the ijurtrait hij Sir G. Kiteller.) virtue of a claim of old standing. Still further friction was occa-sioned by the desertion by the Dutch Admiral De Euijter of theEnglish Admiral Sir John Lawson at a moment when the two wereabout to co-operate against the Algerine pirates; by De Euijterscounter-reprisals on the African coast and on the high seas ; and,finally, by Admiral Sir Thomas Allins attack upon the DutchSmyrna fleet off Cadiz. In this action, as will be shown later, 256 MAJOR OPERATIONS, 1G60-1714. [1665. Captain Pieter van Brakel, senior officer in charge of the Dutchconvoy, was killed. War, in consequence, was declared by theDutch—who had encouragement from France —on January 14th,and by the English on February 23rd, 1665. France, after somehesitation, went to the active assistance of her ally a year later, andon January 16th, 1
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