England following the defeat of Buckingham in…
April 1628 CE
England following the defeat of Buckingham in October 1627 attempts to send two fleets to relieve La Rochelle.
The first one, led by William Feilding, Earl of Denbigh, a veteran of the Expedition to Cadiz three years earlier, leaves on April 1628, but returns without a fight to Portsmouth, as Denbigh "said that he had no commission to hazard the king's ship in a fight and returned shamefully to Portsmouth".