Bankert

Bankert, therefore, joined De Ruyter, who was engaged in a terrific contest with the squadron of Prince Rupert.

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De Ruyter attached himself to the squadron of Prince Rupert; Tromp attacked Sprague, who commanded the blue flag; while Bankert was opposed to the French; the latter, however, after

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

As their commander, Bankert, was not censured, it may be supposed he acted under orders; and he was certainly in command a year later, and acting with great judgment and gallantry at the battle of the Texel.

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Solebay was essentially the same as that of Nelson at St. Vincent, when he threw himself across the path of the Spanish division with his single ship (see Plate III., c, c '); but Nelson took his course without orders from Jervis, while Bankert was carrying out Ruyter's plan.

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The military features of the action have sufficiently appeared in the account that has been given, -- the skill of De Ruyter; the firmness and promptness of Bankert, first in checking and then in passing through the French division; the apparent disloyalty or, at the best, inefficiency of the latter; the insubordination and military blundering of Spragge; the seeming lack of everything but hard fighting on Rupert's part.

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This he did (B); but as soon as Bankert -- the same who had manoeuvred so judiciously at Solebay the year before -- saw the danger, he put his helm up and ran through the remaining twenty ships of

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It does not, however, seem to have prevented Bankert from joining his chief.

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The Dutch are come out again with 20 sail under Bankert; supposed gone to the Northward to meete their East

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Bankert, it seems, is come home with the little fleete he hath been abroad with, without doing any thing, so that there is nobody of an enemy at sea.

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The Dutch are come out again with 20 sail under Bankert; supposed gone to the Northward to meete their East India fleete.

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