Vlieter incident
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In the Vlieter incident of 30 August 1799 a Batavian Navy fleet under Schout-bij-nacht Samuel Story surrendered to the Royal Navy. The incident occurred during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in
1800 engraving of the incident by Robert Dodd
A sad Storey, a contemporary cartoon of Story weeping over the incident
Ensign of a Batavian warship captured during the incident
Batavian Navy
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The Batavian Navy was the navy of the Batavian Republic which existed from 1795 to 1806. Founded in May 1795 after the Dutch Republic was overrun by France during the French Revolutionary Wars and tra
Vlieter incident
…In the Vlieter incident of 30 August 1799 a Batavian Navy fleet under Schout-bij-nacht Samuel Story surrendered to the Royal Navy. The incident occurred during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in the tidal…
The ensign, jack and pennon of the Batavian navy
A Peep into Saldanha Bay or Dutch Perfidy Rewarded by Isaac Cruikshank
Vice-Admiral Jan Willem de Winter, commander-in-chief of the Batavian fleet
The Battle of Camperdown, 11 October 1797, Thomas Whitcombe