 October fifty reached Corunna, bearing ten thousand men stricken with pestilence and death. Of the rest some were sunk, some dashed to pieces against the Irish cliffs. The wreckers of the Orkneys and the Faroes, the clansmen of the Scottish Isles, the...  A History of Sea Power - Page 131by William Oliver Stevens, Allan Ferguson Westcott - 1920 - 458 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1874 - 1076 pages
...pestilence and death ; of the rest some were sunk, some dashed to pieces against the Irish cliffs. The wreckers of the Orkneys and the Faroes, the clansmen...hundred corpses which had been cast up by the sea. The flower of the Spanish nobility, who had been sent on the newcrusade under Alonzo da Leyva, after... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1875 - 912 pages
...pestilence and death ; of the rest some were sunk, some dashed to pieces against the Irish cliffs. The wreckers of the Orkneys and the Faroes, the clansmen...hundred corpses which had been cast up by the sea. The flower of the Spanish nobility, who had been sent oh the new crusade under Alonzo da Leyva, after... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1878 - 524 pages
...with pestilence and death. Of the rest some were sunk, some dashed to pieces against the Irish cliffs. The wreckers of the Orkneys and the Faroes, the clansmen of the Scottish Isles, the kernes of Donegal and Gal way, all had their part in the work of murder and robbery. Eight thousand Spaniards perished between... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1878 - 878 pages
...pestilence and death ; of the rest some were sunk, some dashed to pieces against the Irish cliffs. The wreckers of the Orkneys and the Faroes, the clansmen of the Scottish isles, the kerns of Donegal and Galway, all had their part in the work of murder and robbery. Eight thousand Spaniards... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1880 - 426 pages
...cliffs. The wreckers of the Orkneys10 and the Faroes,11 the clansmen of the Scottish Isles, the kerns of Donegal and Galway, all had their part in the work of murder and robbery. Eight thousand Spaniards perighed between the Giants' Causeway13 and the Blaskets,13 li. On a strand near Sligo,14 an English.... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1882 - 508 pages
...with pestilence and death. Of the rest some were sunk, some dashed to pieces against the Irish cliffs. The wreckers of the Orkneys and the Faroes, the clansmen...On a strand near Sligo an English captain numbered 1100 corpses which had been cast up by the sea. The flower of the Spanish nobility, who had been sent... | |
 | 1882 - 380 pages
...July 19 ; and on retreating towards the north of Scotland early in August, was shattered by storms. " On a strand, near Sligo, an English captain numbered...hundred corpses, which had been cast up by the sea." (Green.) The Spanish ships were large, for those times, being, some of them, more than 1,000 tons.... | |
 | National characteristics, Spanish - 1884 - 340 pages
...pestilence and death. Of the rest, some were sunk, some dashed to pieces against the Irish cliffs. Eight thousand Spaniards perished between the Giant's...On a strand near Sligo an English captain numbered 1,100 corpses which had been cast up by the sea. The flower of the Spanish nobility, after twice suffering... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1884 - 868 pages
...of the Orkneys and the Faroes, the clansmen of the Scottish isles, the kerns of Donegal and Gal way, all had their part in the work of murder and robbery. Eight thousand Spaniards perished between the Ginnt's Causeway and the Blaskete. On a strand near Sligo an English captain numbered eleven hundred... | |
 | Engelbert Nader - English language - 1893 - 100 pages
...s fleet drew up off the shore of Kent; the natives lined the beach with horse foot and chariot, d) On a strand near Sligo an English captain numbered...hundred corpses which had been cast up by the sea. e) The fox is glad when he reaches the bank of a brook or river. In those days a few noblemen's mansions... | |
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