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Juliet Hall Worth Stillman Severance (De Ruyter, Madison County, New York, 1 July 1833 - New York, 3 September 1919) was an American physician and feminist of the 19th century.

Terschelling

The next year, in 1667, the Dutch under command of De Ruyter executed a retaliatory expedition, and dealt the English navy a heavy blow at the Raid on the Medway (also known as the Battle of Chatham), in effect ending the Second Anglo-Dutch War.


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Battle of Schooneveld

Michiel de Ruyter, since February 1673 Lieutenant-Admiral-General of the confederate Dutch fleet, planned to blockade the main English fleet in the River Thames by sinking blockships in its narrowest part, and then to deal with the remaining English squadrons at his leisure.