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    HISTORY IN THE NEWS

    Feb 20, 2020 2 minutes

    Museum buys battle tapestries

    The National Maritime Museum in the Netherlands has acquired two English tapestries depicting a major sea battle in the Third Anglo-Dutch War. The items, worth a total of €2m (£1.7m), originally formed part of a larger series of works commemorating the battle of Solebay in 1672, when an English

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