Drake and the Tudor Navy: With a History of the Rise of England as a Maritime Power, Volume 2

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Longmans, Green, 1898 - Great Britain
 

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Page 385 - Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour...
Page 296 - There was never anything pleased me better than the seeing the enemy flying with a southerly wind to the northwards. God grant you have a good eye to the Duke of Parma : for with the grace of God, if we live, I doubt not, but ere it be long, so to handle the matter with the Duke of Sidonia as he shall wish himself at St. Mary Port among his orange trees.
Page 296 - We have the army of Spain before us,' he wrote next day, ' and mind with the grace of God to wrestle a pull with him. There was never anything pleased me better than the seeing the enemy flying with a southerly wind to the northwards. God grant you have a good eye to the Duke of Parma : for with the grace of God, if we live, I doubt not...
Page 382 - Grenville was the last weighed, to recover the men that were upon the Island, which otherwise had been lost. The Lord Thomas with the rest very hardly recovered the wind, which Sir Richard...
Page 375 - Who seeks the way to win renown, Or flies with wings to high desire, Who seeks to wear the laurel crown, Or hath the mind that would aspire — Let him his native soil eschew, Let him go range and seek a new.
Page 279 - They went into a proportion of a half moon. Their admiral and vice-admiral, they went in the midst, and the greatest number of them ; and there went on each side, in the wings, their galleasses, armados of Portugal, and other good ships, in the whole to the number of sixteen in a wing, which did seem to be of their principal shipping.
Page 455 - The voyage truely discoursed, made by sir Francis Drake, and sir John Hawkins, chiefly pretended for some speciall service on the Islands and maine of the West Indies, with sixe of the Queenes ships, and 21 other shippes and barkes, containing 2500 men and boyes, in the yeere 1595. In which voyage both the foresayd knights died by sicknesse.
Page 139 - But if there may be such a stay or stop made by any means of this fleet in Spain, that they may not come through the seas as conquerors — which, I assure myself, they think to do — then shall the Prince of Parma have such a check thereby as were meet.
Page 418 - Majesty, even to his last breathing; and forasmuch as, through the perverse and cross dealings of some in that journey, who preferring their own fancy before his skill, would never yield, but rather overrule him, whereby he was so discouraged, and as himself then said his heart even broken, that he saw no other but danger of ruin of the whole voyage...

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