Scotland was then occupied by an English force under George Monck throughout the Interregnum and incorporated into the Puritan-governed Commonwealth.

Blake, recovering from an injury, rethought, together with George Monck, the whole system of naval tactics, and after the winter of 1653 used the line of battle, first to drive the Dutch navy out of the English Channel in the Battle of Portland and then out of the North Sea in the Battle of the Gabbard.

Monck then wore to the north.

In 1629 Monck went to the Netherlands, then a centre of warfare, and there he gained a high reputation as a leader and a disciplinarian.

In 1654, the timely discovery of a plot fomented by Robert Overton, his second in command, gave Monck an excuse for purging his army of all dissident religious elements, then called " enthusiasts ", deemed " dangerous " to the Cromwell regime.

The declaration was written in response to a secret message sent by General George Monck, who was then in effective control of England.

In the complicated politics of 1659, Cooper was in contact with Monck, encouraging him to march on London and then to recall the Long Parliament, and ultimately English Restoration | restore the English monarchy.

* Governor General-Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon then Lord Lisgar

Canadian governor Charles Monck believed that by April he would be able to mobilize a total of 100, 000 troops from this group ( assuming Britain provided most of the arms ), a target suggested by Newcastle with the expectation that substantial British troops would be available by then in Canada.

Monck then decided also to sink off ships in Upnor Reach near Upnor Castle, presenting another barrier to the Dutch should they break through the chain at Gillingham.

He was then arrested by Monck in 1655, who later permitted him to return home.

In the same year he then served under Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, as Vice-Admiral of the Blue and after the disgrace of Montagu under the next supreme fleet commander, George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle.

Lambert was now sent, by the Committee of Safety, with a large force to meet George Monck, who was in command of the English forces in Scotland, and either negotiate with him or force him to come to terms.

The Committee of Safety sent Lambert with a large force to meet George Monck, who was in command of the English forces in Scotland, and either negotiate with him or force him to come to terms.

In the beginning of December, however, he was in such distress that he had to retire to a small island with but four or five men, and on 16 Dec. Monck informed Cromwell that Lorne was to meet his father, and would probably come over to the Protector if admitted.

This measure was particularly aimed at hampering the shipping of the highly trade-dependent Dutch and often used as a pretext simply to take their ships ; as General Monck put it: " The Dutch have too much trade, and the English are resolved to take it from them.

At the start of the battle the English fleet of 56 ships commanded by George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle who also commanded the Red Squadron, was outnumbered by the 84-strong Dutch fleet commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter.

On the first day Monck, sailing in the van with George Ayscue's white squadron behind him and Thomas Teddiman's blue squadron forming the rear, surprised the Dutch fleet at anchor near Dunkirk.

Despite disadvantageous weather conditions Monck decided to attack the Dutch rear under Lieutenant-Admiral Cornelis Tromp hoping to cripple it before the Dutch centre and van could intervene.

Monck retreated for the night, but the ship of Rear-Admiral Harman, HMS Henry, drifted to the Dutch lines and was set aflame by two fireships.

On the morning of the second day Monck decided to destroy the Dutch by a direct attack and sailed to them from the southwest ; but De Ruyter in the De Zeven Provinciën crossed his line sailing to the southeast, heavily damaging the English fleet and gaining the weather gauge.

In February 1652 Monck left Scotland to recover his broken health at Bath, and in November of the same year he became a General at Sea in the First Anglo-Dutch War, which ended in a decisive victory for the Commonwealth's fleet and marked the beginning of England's climb to supremacy over the Dutch at sea.

His last service occurred in the Raid on the Medway of 1667, when the Dutch fleet sailed up the Thames, and Monck, though ill, hurried to Chatham to oppose their farther progress.

After their victory at the Battle of the Gabbard in June 1653, the English fleet of 120 ships under General at Sea George Monck blockaded the Dutch coast, capturing many merchant vessels.

The declaration, however ( actually several letters, addressed to Monck, the Houses of Parliament, and the City of London ), was despatched as soon as Charles had crossed the Dutch border, and was dated 4 April ( OS )/ 14 April ( NS ).

" In the morning of the 12th he is reassured by the measures taken by Monck: "(...) met Sir W. Coventry's boy ; and there in his letter find that the Dutch had made no motion since their taking Sheernesse ; and the Duke of Albemarle writes that all is safe as to the great ships against any assault, the boom and chaine being so fortified ; which put my heart into great joy.

It was into this atmosphere that General George Monck, governor of Scotland under the Cromwells, marched south with his army from Scotland.

Troops stationed in Scotland under the command of George Monck eventually marched on London to restore order.

Despite administrative and logistic difficulties, a fleet of eighty ships, under General at Sea George Monck, the Commonwealth veteran ( after the Duke of Albemarle ), set sail at the end of May 1666.

It was into this atmosphere that Monck, the governor of Scotland under the Cromwells, marched south with his army from Scotland.

A century later, Leith was a prospective battleground when the Army of the Covenant, led by General David Leslie, threw up an earthen rampart between the Calton Hill and Leith to defend the northern approach to Edinburgh against Oliver Cromwell's forces, under the command of General Monck.

At the outbreak of the Irish rebellion ( 1641 ) Monck became colonel of Lord Leicester's regiment under the command of Ormonde.

Other copies with separate covering letters were delivered to Lord General George Monck to be communicated to the Lord President of the Council of State and to the Officers of the Army under his command, and to the Generals of the " Navy at Sea " and to the Lord Mayor of the City of London.

( 1767 – 1828 ), Flag Captain under Admiral Jervis, Flag Captain of King George III's Royal Yacht ( 1801-4 ) and Commissioner of Sheerness Dockyard ( 1804-6 ) & Portsmouth Dockyard ( 1806 – 28 ), married Mary Whitbread, daughter of Samuel Whitbread ( 1720-1796 ), whose sons: Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet ( 1799 – 1882 ) was a British Statesman and Home Secretary, and Charles Samuel Grey, Paymaster of Civil Service in Ireland ; and daughters: Mary married Capt Thomas Monck Mason, Elizabeth married Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough, Harriet married Revd John Jenkinson, Hannah Jean married Sir Henry Thompson, 3rd Baronet, Jane married Francis Baring,

Despite administrative and logistic difficulties, a fleet of eighty ships under General-at-Sea Monck, the Commonwealth veteran, ( after the Duke of Albemarle ) set sail at the end of May 1666.

The Lord High Treasurer Wriothesely having died just before Clarendon's departure, the Treasury went into commission in 1667, under the nominal chairmanship of George Monck ( Duke of Albermarle ).

He distinguished himself in the Four Days Battle of June 11-14, 1666, where Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter defeated the British fleet under George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle.

During the Interregnum, Scotland was kept under the military occupation of an English army under George Monck.

The Parliamentarians besieged in Derry were relieved by a strange alliance of Roundhead troops under George Monck and the Irish Catholic general Owen Roe O ' Neill.

He took part in the abortive royalist uprising under Glencairn in 1654, and was one of those who urged Monck to declare a free parliament in England to facilitate the restoration.

They had kept their weapons and lived a life of banditry, attacking both civilians and Parliamentary soldiers for supplies during the Royalist rising of 1651 to 1654 when English Parliamentarian troops under George Monck occupied Scotland.