England under Charles II. from the Restoration to the Treaty of Nimeguen, 1660-1678: English History from Contemporary Writers
Taylor, W. F.
1889
Progress of the war.
Ibid. April 20, . De Ruyter attempted the Barbadoes with his fleet, but beaten off. | |
Coke: Detection of the Court and State. London, . | |
Though this war was . . . hastily begun, yet was it managed more carelessly and prodigally than any ever was before . . | |
The king in the first year of the war was forced, in the dead of winter, to send Sir John Harrison to Gostenberg with a squadron of men-of-war for masts, pitch and tar, where, by reason of the coldness of the season, some of the ships were frozen up . . . yet all agreed, if the king had not been supplied with naval stores by this fleet, he could not have fitted out a fleet next year. | |
. . . Sir Thomas Allen opened the first sea campaign by falling upon the Dutch Smyrna fleet, and took four of them richly laden. | |