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<div style="font-weight:bold;display:inline-block;">Action between ships in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Dutch_War" class="extiw" title="en:First Dutch War">en:First Dutch War</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1652" class="extiw" title="en:1652">1652</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1654" class="extiw" title="en:1654">1654</a></div></div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Abraham_Willaerts" class="extiw" title="w:en:Abraham Willaerts"><span title="painter from the Northern Netherlands">Abraham Willaerts</span></a>
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mid 17<sup>th</sup> century <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P4241,Q40719748</div> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50870559#P571" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>
The Battle of the Kentish Knock (or the Battle of the Zealand Approaches) was a naval battle between the fleets of the Dutch Republic and England, fought on 28 September 1652 (8 October Gregorian calendar),[a] during the First Anglo-Dutch War near the shoal called the Kentish Knock in the North Sea about thirty kilometres east of the mouth of the river Thames. The Dutch fleet, internally divided on political, regional and personal grounds, proved incapable of making a determined effort and was soon forced to withdraw, losing two ships and many casualties. In Dutch the action is called the Slag bij de Hoofden.