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  |Map=               Gillingham - Kent dot.png
  |Population=        
  |Place=             Gillingham
  |District=          [[Medway]]
  |Region=            [[South East England]]
  |Ceremonial=        [[Kent]]
  |Traditional=       [[Kent]]
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*In [[1667]] a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] fleet sailed up the [[River Medway]] and having landed at [[Queenborough]] on the [[Isle of Sheppey]], and laying siege to the fort at [[Sheerness]], invaded Gillingham in what became known as the [[raid on the Medway]]. The Dutch, after some consternation and panic from royalty, were eventually driven out, but the incident caused great humiliation to the [[Royal Navy]]. 

*The [[Seven Years
' War]] began in 1756. The government immediately gave orders for the defence of the dockyard, and by 1758 the Chatham Lines of Defence were built. Over a mile long, they stretched across the neck of the dockyard peninsula, from Chatham Reach, south of the dockyard, across to Gillingham Reach on the opposite side. One of the ''redoubts'' on the Lines was at [[Fort Amherst|Amherst]]. The batteries faced away from the dockyard itself to forestall an attack from the landward side; the ships (contracted; show full)
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