This was a tough battle probably on 7 September1652 between a Dutch fleet under Johan van Galen and an English fleet under Richard Badiley. The English were trying to reach Livorno, where a squadron under Henry Appleton was. September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ... // Events April 6 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founded Cape Town. ...
Ships involved:
Netherlands (van Galen)
Jaarsveld 44 (flag) Prinses Royaal 34 Wapen van Zeeland 32 Eendracht 40 (Jacob de Boer, Vice-Admiral) Maan 40 Zeven Provincien 40 Haarlem 40 Maagd van Enkhuysen 34 (Cornelis Tromp) Zeelandia 32 Jonge Prins 28
England (Badiley)
Paragon 52 (flag) Elizabeth 36 Phoenix 36 - Captured by Eendracht Constant Warwick 32 Mary Rose 32 (hired merchantman) William and Thomas 30 (hired merchantman) Thomas Bonaventure 28 (hired merchantman) Richard and William 24 (hired merchantman)
The Union battle line was formed with the right flank held by the Eightieth Illinois infantry, the left by the Twenty- Eighth Wisconsin and two companies of the Fifth Kansas cavalry and the center by three howitzers supported by the dismounted cavalry.
The battle was the first in a series of battles fought in south Arkansas in the spring of 1864 in what is known in the official records as the Camden Expedition.
After the battle, the Union forces returned to Pine Bluff and the Confederate forces withdrew to their camp at Monticello and were shortly called across the Ouachita River to help repel General Steele's expedition in south Arkansas.
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