Although Britain indeed dispatched more than 40 warships to block the attack this time, it was obvious that their blockade of the English Channel failed. This also made the British senior officials realize that more than 40 warships were completely unable to carry out an effective blockade.

The number of warships had to be increased. Therefore, the British high-level officials finally deployed a larger fleet to the English Channel to effectively block the English Channel in all directions.

In February 1653, the Dutch commander Teplo led more than 80 warships to escort the merchant ships back home. Everyone must be optimistic here, this is not an escort of more than a dozen or 20 warships, but nearly 80 warships.

Many warships are escorting merchant ships. It can be seen that the Dutch are also aware that the British will definitely send more warships, so the purpose of this is to fight. How can this be a pure escort of merchant ships? To escort a merchant ship, more than 80 ships will be dispatched.

Battleship, it’s not surprising that it’s worth dying for.

And everything was just as the British and Dutch high-level officials imagined. When the Dutch merchant ships sailed to the Portland waters, they were directly attacked by more than 70 British warships. In an instant, they were bombarded fiercely by artillery.

It was completely like a sea battle. In fact, in an essential sense, this was a real sea battle. Countless shells filled the sky like raindrops, and the entire sea area here was filled with artillery fire.

We need to understand that a British warship has about 80 cannons on it, and there are now more than 70 warships of this level. What kind of concept is this?

However, although the British advanced warships do have many guns, a long range, and great power, the Dutch warships are not a joke. The original purpose of the Netherlands dispatching more than 80 warships to escort this time is to fight, so how is it possible?

How about sending secondary warships to escort? Therefore, the Dutch warships are all very sophisticated and advanced, and the naval generals of both sides are evenly matched. The Dutch and British warships are also evenly matched, so the two sides are proceeding under such circumstances.

In order to fight against each other, we also talked a little bit about the current general situation in this sea area. In fact, a more detailed point is that the water on the sea is splashing and the smoke is filled. The extremely fierce naval battle lasted for three days and three nights! Both sides also

They all paid a very heavy price.

But what should we say about this matter? The Netherlands will definitely launch a fierce attack. If they fail, first of all, they themselves may never be able to go back, and they will also indirectly lose this sea route. This is definitely not

Just kidding, if this happens, the Netherlands will lose huge profit routes. After all, although the Netherlands is a small country, they have gained a huge amount of wealth because of this maritime trade. What can I even say? The bourgeoisie in the Netherlands currently has

How rich is it? For example, the snails they use for fun are all inlaid with gold. You can imagine how rich the Dutch bourgeoisie is at this time. But if the current Dutch escort fleet loses, they will lose it again in the future.

We can no longer afford such luxury.

As for the British, they definitely want to drive the Dutch away, or annihilate them directly. Regardless of whether they drive them away or annihilate them, this route will definitely become theirs. The wealth that was going to the Netherlands before will now be lost.

To flow to Britain, this kind of naval war must still be carried out. There is no other choice at all. Moreover, this kind of struggle for hegemony between countries can also be said to be a struggle for maritime power. Once a war breaks out, one of the parties will definitely win.

It can only be temporarily ended when the combat effectiveness is completely lost. Looking at the naval battles throughout our human history, it is actually not difficult to come up with such an answer.

But regarding this large-scale fierce naval battle that lasted for three days and three nights between more than 70 sophisticated British warships and more than 80 sophisticated warships from the Netherlands in the waters of Portland, the final result was that the Dutch

Although Commander Teplow broke through the blockade, the losses were too heavy, which resulted in the loss of sea control to the British. Although the British fleet also suffered heavy losses at this time, they mobilized a large number of fleets, and this time and last time

It's different. This time, Britain has directly implemented a stricter blockade against the Dutch merchant shipping waters, so this also represents the beginning of the battle for sea control between the two countries.

We have also said that the Netherlands is actually a very small country, so the main source of wealth for the Netherlands is maritime trade. Apart from maritime trade, they seem to have no other income at all. In fact, they do, but these incomes are compared with maritime trade.

They are simply not on the same level. And now the British have adopted a blockade strategy of killing all merchant ships in the Netherlands when they encounter them, so the Dutch economy has directly fallen into a state of paralysis.

In fact, why did the Dutch economy suddenly fall into a state of paralysis? It is really not difficult to understand this. As we said before, the Netherlands has more than 16,000 merchant ships, and almost all the sources of wealth in the Netherlands are from these maritime vessels.

Trade, then you can also imagine how many people work in this series of industries? But now they can’t go to sea, so what should these people do? Could it be that they have become unemployed? In another Netherlands, it is completely

Trade was supporting it, that is, selling some things from your home or other places to other places, and then shipping back the things you need from elsewhere. But now this trade is interrupted! So the entire Netherlands is in a state of economic paralysis.

The top leaders of the Netherlands are definitely not willing to let it go, because if this continues, the entire Netherlands will be in absolute trouble. Anyway, they will never be as rich as before, so why are they playing with gold-encrusted snails? Isn't this a joke?

Do they all have to farm? But the land area is not large, and farming is not profitable. It is like putting a person who originally earned a monthly salary of 100,000 yuan into a job with a monthly salary of 1,000 yuan.

They are definitely not used to it, and they will definitely rebel. In fact, the current situation in the Netherlands is not necessarily so serious, and I am just giving an example. The general situation is like this. Therefore, the Dutch top management needs to get back their former interests, which ultimately determines

Want to fight to the death with Britain!

By June of 1653, only four months had passed since the last naval battle. At this time, the Netherlands could no longer bear it. This shows how great the impact of this disconnection of maritime trade on the Netherlands as a whole. This

At that time, the Dutch commander-in-chief Teplo led 104 excellent Dutch ships. This was their attempt to break the British maritime blockade. The British commander-in-chief Blake organized 115 excellent British warships to respond to the enemy.

After the battle started, both sides started a melee. It was an attitude of just letting go and killing the enemy, maiming them, or destroying them when they saw them. Anyway, as long as there was ammunition, they would just fire like crazy. That was it.

What do you call a melee on the sea? It's just filled with smoke. This is definitely not a joke. In special cases, it can even be a scene where thousands of cannons are fired by both sides, so you can imagine this scene.

It was a complete barrage of artillery fire. However, although the huge British warships were superior to the Dutch ships in terms of size. However, the Dutch ships were small and very flexible, so they were in the gap between the huge British warships.

By shuttling back and forth and firing artillery, this indirectly did not allow the British army to gain much advantage.

Therefore, as this chaotic naval battle lasted for a long time, the British warships equipped with more advanced artillery and whose quantity and quality were superior to those of the Dutch slowly gained the upper hand. After dark, reinforcements from the British fleet arrived, and suddenly the Dutch

The fleet knew that they could not continue the fight at all. This time they were seriously inferior to the British in numbers. If they continued to fight, they would definitely be destroyed by the British fleet. Therefore, because of the extremely heavy losses, the Dutch fleet could no longer fight.

They were forced to retreat to the shallow waters of Flanders. However, the British warships were too big and had a relatively deep draft, which made it impossible to pursue them in shallow waters.

At this point, we can say that this final naval battle was a British victory, which made the British blockade of the Netherlands even more rampant. Although it was already rampant enough before, after all, the Dutch still have to understand that not even a cargo ship can pass by.

Concept, this actually means that the Dutch maritime trade will completely disappear. The Dutch high-level officials, completely unwilling to accept it, directly mobilized a large number of warships, and under the leadership of Tepulo, prepared to launch a massive counterattack against the British fleet.

On August 10, the fierce sea battle between the two sides began again. At this time, the British fleet gave full play to the superior power of their advanced artillery to deal with the Dutch fleet. Moreover, on the battlefield of this naval battle, the Dutch commander Teplo was on the battlefield.

He was shot and killed in the fierce battle. The Dutch fleet was suddenly in chaos. The British army seized this opportunity to attack! The Dutch fleet suffered extremely heavy casualties. It can be said that the Netherlands was completely beaten at this time and had no ability to fight back.

At this point, too many warships were lost, and this was not lost in one naval battle, but several times. In April 1654, the Dutch leaders were forced to conclude a peace treaty with the British and agreed to pay a huge sum of money.

reparations and recognition of Britain's maritime supremacy.

After that, Britain, which had gained control of the sea, began its colonial expansion. In fact, we have talked about this a little bit before, but now let’s take a closer look. In 1664, Britain captured the Dutch colonies in North America and West Africa. 16

In February 1965, the Netherlands, seeking revenge, directly declared war on Britain.

Admiral Wright of the Netherlands led his army to retake the colonies occupied by the British in West Africa. However, he was defeated by the British Duke of York in the Battle of Lowestoft in June. At this time, France, Denmark and other countries were facing the rapid expansion of Britain.
Chapter completed!