1216825 Battle of Livorno, 14th March 1653, an incident from the First Anglo-Dutch War, after 1653-60 (oil on canvas on panel) by Dutch School, (17th century); 114x216 cm; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; (add.info.: The naval Battle of Leghorn (the Dutch call the encounter by the Italian name Livorno) took place on 14 March (4 March Old Style) 1653, during the First Anglo-Dutch War, near Leghorn (Livorno), Italy. It was a victory of a Dutch fleet under Commodore Johan van Galen over an English squadron under Captain Henry Appleton. Afterward an English fleet under Captain Richard Badiley, which Appleton had been trying to reach, came up but was outnumbered and fled. The battle gave the Dutch command of the Mediterranean, placing the English trade with the Levant at their mercy, but Van Galen was mortally wounded, dying on 23 March.); Dutch, out of copyright.