03.22 - A Mountain of Gold

Two of the greatest naval commanders of the 17th century - Robert
Blake and Maarten Tromp - face off in the English Channel. After
months of growing hostilities, a refusal to salute English ships is
enough to spark a shooting war between the Commonwealth of England
and the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Have your say in the
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1652-1674, 1998. Christian J. Koot, ‘A “Dangerous Principle”: Free
Trade Discourses in Barbados and the English Leeward Islands,
1650—1689’, Early American Studies, 5.1 (2007), 132–63. Thomas
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in Seventeenth-Century England’, The Historical Journal, 48.4
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Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660. Alan
MacInnes, The British Revolution, 1629-1660, 2004. Go to
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