Anglo-dutch Wars/the Third War 1672-1674

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    “Before now poetry has taken notice
    Of wars, and what are wars but politics
    Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.”
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