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Battle of Leghorn
The naval Battle of Leghorn (the Dutch call the encounter by the Italian name Livorno) took place on 14 March 1653, during the First Anglo-Dutch War, near Leghorn (Livorno), Italy. It was a victory of a Dutch fleet under Commodore Johan van Galen over an English squadron under Captain Henry Appleton.
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