Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A shekara ta 1639, an shirya wani babban jirgi na jiragen ruwa 75 da sojoji 24,000 da matuƙan jirgin ruwa don sake ba da Netherlands na Spain. An ba da umarnin jagorantar ga Lope de Hoces, amma ya ƙi shi, sakamakon haka umarnin ya wuce zuwa Antonio de Oquendo, kwamandan rundunar jiragen ruwa na Bahar Rum. A ranar 15 ga watan Satumba, rundunar sojojin Holland mai suna Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp, wanda aka karfafa shi kwana biyu bayan haka ta hanyar jirgin ruwa na Vice-Admiral Witte de With, ya kama jirgin ruwa a kusa da Dover Strait. De Oquendo ya nemi mafaka a The Downs, a cikin ruwan Ingilishi mai tsaka tsaki a gabar Kent. A ranar 21 ga Oktoba, rundunar jiragen ruwa na Holland, ta karu zuwa fiye da jirgi dari, ta keta tsaka tsaki na Ingila kuma ta kai hari ga rundunar jiragen ruwa na Spain
, ya yi nasarar hallaka ko kama jiragen ruwa da yawa na abokan gaba.