In June 1667, a Dutch fleet sailed straight into the heart of English naval power and delivered the Royal Navy its most humiliating defeat in history. While peace negotiations in the Second Anglo-Dutch War stalled, Admiral Michiel de Ruyter led 80 Dutch warships and 4,000 troops towards the Thames and the Medway rivers – home of the English fleet. What followed was a raid so audacious that no Englishman was expecting it, and they would pay the p…
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