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Identifier: c3britishnatiowest00wron (find matches)
Title: The British nation a history / by George M. Wrong
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wrong, George M
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Publisher: Toronto : Morang & Co.
Contributing Library: The University of Western Ontario, Western Archives
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aders who op-posed him. England and Holland were old commercial rivals, andwere sure to fight until one or the other had establishedWar with ^^^ Supremacy upon the seas. Against Claren- Holland, plague dons wislies, war was declared in February,^ ^® 1665. The Parliament supported the king with huge grants of money. There was great excitement,and on June 3^^1665, the English won a bloody victory offLowestoft. It was at this time that they seized the Dutchcolony of ^ew Amsterdam _j.nd transfrnmed it_ into NewYork. While the war raged plague appeared in London,and before the end of June, 1665, the court hurried fromthe stricken city. In June 590 died of plague, in July4,129, in August 20,046, in September 26,230. The bellstolled incessantly, most of the shoijs were closed, grassgrew in the streets, the river was deserted. And in 1666,when London was recovering itself, came a new and over-whelming misfortune. Fire broke out on September 2and for some days swept unchecked through the most
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THE RESTORATIOX AXD THE REVOLUTIOX 413 crowded districts of the city. Two-thirds of Loudon layin ruins. Charles was imj)ressed by the accumulated dis-asters, and the tone of the court became for a time serious.But France now joined Holland in the war, and whileEngland needed to husband every resource Charles waswasting in j)rofligacy the money voted forThe fall of amis. He allowed the larafer ships of the Clarendon. ■ ■ . .^ .-. navy to go out oi commission, left the Thames defenceless, and gave the Dutch an opening for a heavy blow. Euyter and DeTVitt sailed up the Thames and the Medway in June, 1667, burned what shipping they could, and caused a fearful panic in London itself.

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