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Battle of Plymouth
The naval Battle of Plymouth took place on 26 August 1652 during the First Anglo-Dutch War. General-at-Sea George Ayscue of the Commonwealth of England, commanding a fleet of forty men-of-war and five fire ships, attacked an outward bound convoy of the United Provinces escorted by 23 men-of-war and six fire ships commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter.
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