Talk:Raid on the Medway

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[edit] remembered from school

Pepys: My god, the Devil shits Dutchmen..."

Poem

"When a loud ill wind is heard,
from the devils hairy horn,
an Englishman he knows the sound
of a Dutchman being born!"

Anon.

The sources are not easy to be found. Did Pepys write this in 1672? Did anyone claim the little poem?

Robert Prummel 01:40, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

The citation is from Pepys' entry of 19 July 1667; but he didn't make this exclamation himself: the words are those of the Surveyor of the Ships William Batten:

One tells me that, by letter from Holland, the people there are made to believe that our condition in England is such as they may have whatever they will ask; and that so they are mighty high, and despise us, or a peace with us; and there is too much reason for them to do so. The Dutch fleete are in great squadrons everywhere still about Harwich, and were lately at Portsmouth; and the last letters say at Plymouth, and now gone to Dartmouth to destroy our Streights' fleete lately got in thither; but God knows whether they can do it any hurt, or no, but it was pretty news come the other day so fast, of the Dutch fleets being in so many places, that Sir W. Batten at table cried, "By God," says he, "I think the Devil shits Dutchmen."--MWAK (talk) 11:49, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Retaliation?

In the text on Terschelling it says that the Raid on the Medway was a retaliatory expedition after "Sir" Robert Holmes had gone a bit overboard and burned 150 merchant ships as well as the town of West-Terschelling to the ground in Holmes's Bonfire. There is no mention of this in this article. Could anyone check if this is true (and then add it). Afasmit 01:57, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Checked. P5 ref name="Pepys" /The Dutch Raid on the Medway, Samuel Pepys, 1667 /ref added as link to prevent duplication.ClemRutter 09:00, 14 October 2007 (UTC)