Early this campaign, siege was laid to Dunkirk; and when the Spanish army advanced to relieve it, the combined armies of France and England marched out of their trenches, and fought the battle of the Dunes, where the Spaniards were totally defeated.[**] * He aspired to get possession of Elsinore and the passage of the Sound.

See World's Mistake in Oliver Cromwell.

He also endeavored to get possession of Bremen.

Thurloe, vol.
vi.p.

478.
* It was remarked by the saints of that time, that the battle was fought on a day which was held for a fast in London; so that, as Fleetwood said, (Thurloe, vol.vii.