. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. tain of the Fleet; Cajjtain John Nar-brough was flag-captain : and Cai)taiu Christopher Gunman served as Master of tliePrince. After the death of Cox, Narbrough was made Captain of the Fleet, andGunman, flag-captain. X 2 308 MA JOB OPERATIONS, 1GG0-17I4. [igt: capacity in the Boijal Jamef,, lost his Hfe. How severely theMarines suffered may be gathered from the fact that out of twelvecaptains on the strength of the Dukes regiment, four, namely,Thomas Bennett, Thomas Bromley, Roger Vaughan, and FrancisDigby above-mentioned, we
. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. tain of the Fleet; Cajjtain John Nar-brough was flag-captain : and Cai)taiu Christopher Gunman served as Master of tliePrince. After the death of Cox, Narbrough was made Captain of the Fleet, andGunman, flag-captain. X 2 308 MA JOB OPERATIONS, 1GG0-17I4. [igt: capacity in the Boijal Jamef,, lost his Hfe. How severely theMarines suffered may be gathered from the fact that out of twelvecaptains on the strength of the Dukes regiment, four, namely,Thomas Bennett, Thomas Bromley, Roger Vaughan, and FrancisDigby above-mentioned, were kihed. AVriting to Lord ArHngtonssecretary, and referring to this battle. Captain Silas Taylor, ofHarwich, said : Those Marines of whom I soe oft have wroteto you behaved themselves stoutly. ^ This, so far as is known,is the first appHcation of the term Marines to the mihtaryforce which, a few years earlier, had been specially raised forservice afloat; and it is therefore of much historical interest. The total English loss in officers and men has been estimated. MEDAL COMMEMORATIVE OF THE BATTLE OF SOLEBAY, 1672. (From an original kindly lent hij Captain Prince Loitix ufBattcnbrni, i?.X) at 2500. The Duke of York was obliged, in the course of theaction, to shift his flag to the St. Michael, and later, to the the Boyal James, another ship was blown up, and twovessels were sunk. The Royal Katherine was captured, but quicklyretaken, though her captain,^ with others of her people, remained inthe hands of the Dutch.^ The successes of the French on land had by this time broughtthe Netherlands to a deplorable condition. Owing to lack ofammunition great part of the fleet had to be laid up. Owing to 1 S. P. Dom. Car. ii. B. 310. ^ gjj. Jo}^^ Chicheley. ^ A True Eelation, etc., iu a letter from Henry Saville (1G72, fol.); Meius. ofJohn, Duke of Buckingham, ii. ; Ludlows Memoirs, iii.; Parkers Hist, of OwnTimes; Arlingtons Letters; Mems. of Sir John Reresb
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