The Battle of Dogger Bank refers to a number of naval battles fought near and over the Dogger Bank in the North Sea:
- The Battle of Dogger Bank (1696), 7 June 1696, during the War of the Grand Alliance between a French squadron under Jean Bart and a Dutch convoy under Rutger Bucking
- The Battle of Dogger Bank (1781), 5 August 1781, during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War between a British squadron under Hyde Parker and a Dutch squadron under Johan Zoutman
- The Dogger Bank incident (1904), 21 October 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, when Russian sailors wrongly opened fire on British fishing boats
- The Battle of Dogger Bank (1915), 24 January 1915, during World War I, between squadrons of the Royal Navy and the German Navy
- The Battle of Dogger Bank (1916), 10 February 1916, the second during World War I, between a mine-sweeping squadron of the Royal Navy and German torpedo boats
Famous quotes containing the words battle of, battle and/or bank:
“The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn’t going to be won by charm and personality.”
—Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. First Sea Lord (Laurence Naismith)
“What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array through the always hostile country! How many enemies there are to sane thinking! Every soldier has succumbed to them before he enlists for those other battles.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It was like passing a boundary to dive
Into the sun-filled water, brightly leafed
And limbed and lighted out from bank to bank.
That’s how the stars shine during the day.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)