<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty_Years'_War" id="mwNw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Eighty Years' War">Eighty Years' War</a>: Off the coast of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall" id="mwOA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cornwall">Cornwall</a>, England, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire" id="mwOQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Spanish Empire">Spanish</a> fleet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_off_Lizard_Point" id="mwOg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle off Lizard Point">intercepts</a> an important <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" id="mwOw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kingdom of England">Anglo</a>-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Republic" id="mwPA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dutch Republic">Dutch</a> merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.