Leaving the Downs, Albemarle came upon De Ruyter's fleet of 85 ships at anchor, and he immediately engaged the nearest Dutch ship before the rest of the fleet could come to its assistance.

De Ruyter's flagship De Zeven Provinciën is shown in the left background in close combat with the Vice-Admiral of the Blue, Sir Joseph Jordan on Royal Sovereign.

De Ruyter was born in 1607 in Flushing ( Vlissingen ) as the son of beer porter Adriaen Michielszoon and Aagje Jansdochter Little is known about De Ruyter's early life, but he probably became a sailor at the age of 11.

In 1650 De Ruyter's wife, who in 1649 had given him a second son named Engel, unexpectedly died.

De Ruyter's burial site has now turned into a tourist attraction.

De Ruyter's mausoleum is visible, protected by a glass pane.

However, descendants of the De Ruyter family are granted unrestricted access to his grave, and De Ruyter's descendant stated in a 2007 issue of Dutch newspaper Het Parool that he visited the coffin privately in 1948 with his own grandfather, and they decided to lift the coffin's lid.

There were so many objections, while De Ruyter's only substantial contribution to the discussion was " bevelen zijn bevelen "(" orders are orders "), that Cornelis, after retiring to his cabin late in the night, wrote in his daily report he didn't feel at all sure that he would be obeyed.

The Prince was crippled by De Ruyter's flagship De Zeven Provinciën in a two hours ' duel.

De Ruyter's squadron at that moment consisted of 23 warships and six fireships, with a total of about 600 cannon and 1700 men.

In October nine or ten of the Dutch ships, among them De Ruyter's flagship the Kleine Neptunis, then had to return to port for repairs, probably because of insufficiently repaired damage from the battle.

Company leader SS-Untersturmführer Helmut Scholz gathered a group of men and went into action, retaking De Ruyter's original positions, giving the regiment shelter and preventing a rout.

The battle, the fiercest in De Ruyter's memory, claimed the lives of Holmes's friends Holles and Sandwich, and forced the Lord High Admiral to transfer his flag twice, from Prince to Holmes's St Michael and from that to London.

Besides football, there were also boxing and motorcycle speedway races in De Kuip, which were also gaining popularity.

De Fuentes increased her popularity with such films as La Mujer sin Alma ( 1944 ) and La Devoradora ( 1946 ); the latter making the actress the vamp of Mexican cinema in the 1940s.

For some time after this De Geer enjoyed considerable popularity.

Consuming history by Jerome De Groot suggests that " the series ' wider popularity is due to their tone and style rather than their content ".

His popularity soared while he and Spring ( along with Proinsias De Rossa, leader of Democratic Left ) were seen as an effective team.

Within three years of the introduction of the new electoral laws Louis De Geer ministry had forfeited much of its former popularity, and had been forced to resign.

De Molina ’ s popularity is demonstrated by the show ’ s consistently high ratings.

The De Prodigiis also achieved great popularity, and was translated into Italian ( 1543 ), English ( 1546 ) and Spanish ( 1550 ).

Meanwhile, during his residence at the Hague, he engaged on a translation of De Thou's Historia, and, relying on the popularity of his first book, published at Amsterdam a Suite in three volumes, forming volumes v, vi, and vii of the original Mémoires et aventures d ’ un homme de qualité.

During this period, though, De Laurentiis produced such films as Barabbas ( 1961 ) a Christian religious epic, Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die, an imitation James Bond film ; Navajo Joe ( 1966 ), a spaghetti western ; Anzio ( 1968 ), a World War II film ; Barbarella ( 1968 ) and Danger: Diabolik ( 1968 ), both successful comic book adaptations ; and The Valachi Papers made to coincide with the popularity of The Godfather.

De With became very jealous of Tromp's popularity after his destruction of the Spanish fleet in The Downs.

By the early 1930s, De Priest's popularity waned because he continued to oppose higher taxes on the rich and fought Depression-era federal relief programs.

This singular book, which has never lost its popularity with a limited class of readers, was followed in the next year by a treatise De l ' amour, in which he attacked the accepted social conventions.

It was commonly used, along with Cicero's De Inventione, to teach rhetoric, and its popularity is evidenced by the large number of surviving manuscripts — over one hundred are extant.

He began his career as a child actor using his real name Ariel Muhlach, appearing in the 1976 film, Babaing Hiwalay Sa Asawa and the 1978 film, May Lalaki sa Ilalim ng Kama. He also appeared in the 1980 film starring Fernando Poe Jr. and Christopher De Leon in the movie, Aguila His popularity soared in teeny-bopper roles upon using his new screen name, Aga Muhlach in movies such as Bagets ( 1983 ) and Super-Wan-Tu-Tri ( 1986 ), one of the films he co-starred with Janice de Belen, with whom he would have a son ( Luigi Muhlach ; married to Patty Petil ).

De Boigne decided to go back as well, and in 1802 he settled in Paris, where the consul Napoleon Bonaparte was enjoying great popularity.

De Isla was forced to leave his city and took up the life of an itinerant preacher, where he gained considerable popularity.

However, over time, as Ajax's popularity and success grew, the De Meer proved to be too small – for a number of years, Ajax played their big European games at the Olympisch Stadion, before the opening of the purpose built Amsterdam ArenA in 1996.

Research by both Kasper and Zanini De Vita indicate while ragùs with pasta gained popularity through the 19th century, they were largely eaten by the wealthy until the industrial revolution made flour for pasta more affordable for the less affluent in the very late 19th century.

Its popularity is largely attributed to the group Afro-Cuba De Matanzas.

In 1979, his popularity was confirmed by the success of the Banana Republic tour and album together with singer-songwriter Francesco De Gregori, his band, and his friend Ron.

In 1999 a reggae fusion remix by " Bob Marley vs. Funkstar De Luxe " reached number one on the U. S. dance chart and number three on the UK Singles Chart and has been widely credited as one of the songs which led to the popularity of reggae fusion.

Conscious of their popularity, Wilde & De Coster wanted a more accessible, formatted formula for their project to grow.

He had presented the first German performances of Puccini's Manon Lescaut and De Falla's La Vida Breve.

the energetic Parisian, Roger De Damas, three year's Littlepage's junior, to whom Nassau had taken a liking ; ;

and the artillerist, Colonel Prevost, whom the Count De Segur had persuaded to lend his technical skills to Nassau.

Right now he found Sophie De Witt, that magnificent young matron he had spotted at Kamieniec four years ago.

Back and forth Duclos had to go, between M. De Cury and Jean Jacques and between the Duke D'Aumont and Jean Jacques again, as his little operetta, The Village Soothsayer, though still unperformed, took on ever more importance.

The Abbot of St. Eloi, Claude De Mommor, had been a good friend, but not even he thought Charles deserved burial in hallowed ground.

Alex's instruction was rapid, for the doctor had to go off to the Rue Ecole De Medecine to hear more speeches with only time for one sip of wine to sustain him through them all.

So with four complete Push-Pull Super-Sets No. 1, four of No. 2, four of No. 3 and four to six sets of the Incline Bench Press, you can see that Henri De Courcy has had a terrific mass-building, muscle-shaping, torso-defining workout that cannot be improved upon.

De La Laude, commander of the Alabama post, had the friendship of the natives, and was able to make them look upon the British as poor competitors.

It was won by Georges Bouton of the De Dion-Bouton Company, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather difficult to call it a race.

He did believe that stones had occult properties, as he related in his work De mineralibus.

sc Heerenveen managed to do the same in 2008 – 09, though their away victory at Feyenoord was a KNVB Cup match ( Heerenveen had drawn 2 – 2 at De Kuip in the Eredivisie match ).

This doctrine is a 17th century innovation, although it is now applied retrospectively for centuries ; the seventh Baron De La Warr had three surviving sons ; the first died without children, the second left two daughters, the third left a son.

Darkman was also a financial success and De Laurentiis had multi-picture deal with Universal and so Army of Darkness became one of the films.

The earlier date, 293, is sometimes assigned and apparently supported by the authority of a " Coptic Fragment " ( published by Dr. O. von Lemm among the Mémoires de l ' académie impériale des sciences de S. Péterbourg, 1888 ) and corroborated by the maturity revealed in his two earliest treatises Contra Gentes ( Against the Heathens ) and De Incarnatione ( On the Incarnation ), which were admittedly written about the year 318 before Arianism had begun to make itself felt, as those writings do not show an awareness of Arianism.

Another difficulty is that manuscripts of early writers were often incomplete: it is apparent that Bede had access to Pliny's Encyclopedia, for example, but it seems that the version he had was missing book xviii, as he would almost certainly have quoted from it in his De temporum ratione.

The film, which was co-directed with Leach and producer Cynthia Munroe, had been shot in 1963 but remained unreleased until 1969, when De Palma's star had risen sufficiently within the Greenwich Village filmmaking scene.

Preproduction for the film had coincided with the casting process for George Lucas's Star Wars, and many of the actors cast in De Palma's film had been earmarked as contenders for Lucas's movie, and vice-versa.

The Demolished Man was a novel that had fascinated De Palma since the late 1950s and appealed to his background in mathematics and avant-garde storytelling.

Gildas, in his 6th century De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, may have been alluding to Boudica when he wrote " A treacherous lioness butchered the governors who had been left to give fuller voice and strength to the endeavours of Roman rule.

According to the work De Administrando Imperio written by the 10th-century Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, the Croats had arrived in what is today Croatia in the early 7th century, however that claim is disputed and competing hypotheses date the event between the 6th and the 9th centuries.

This battle is of interest because it is surprising that an area so far east should still be in Briton hands this late: there is ample archaeological evidence of early Saxon and Anglian presence in the Midlands, and historians generally have interpreted Gildas's De Excidio as implying that the Britons had lost control of this area by the mid-sixth century.