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Michiel de Ruyter
Michiel de Ruyter was a Dutch admiral, the most celebrated commander of the Dutch navy. During the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars he won the Four Days' Battle in 1666, led the Raid on the Medway in 1667, when the English flagship Royal Charles was towed away, and fought off the combined English and French fleets in 1672–1673. He died of wounds received in battle against the French off Sicily in 1676.
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