Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine: A Monthly Journal Devoted to All Subjects Connected with Her Majesty's Land and Sea Forces, Volum 2W.H. Allen & Company, 1889 |
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Side 1108 - ... in the setting up of our royal ships, the errors of other nations being far more excusable than ours. For the kings of England have for many years been at the charge to build and furnish a navy of powerful ships for their own defence, and for the wars only ; whereas the French, the Spaniards, the Portugals, and the Hollanders (till of late) have had no proper fleet belonging to their princes or states.
Side 1108 - ... which takes up twice as much water as the ordinary did. We have lately added the Bonnet and the Drabler. To the courses we have devised studdingsails, topgallant-sails, spritsails, topsails.
Side 1108 - ... whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
Side 1110 - ... tons each ship, as it is said we had in the twenty-fourth year of Queen Elizabeth ; at which time also, upon a general view and muster, there were found in England, of all men fit to bear arms, eleven hundred and •seventy-two thousand, yet are our merchants...
Side 1108 - Portuguese, and the Hollanders (till of late) have had no proper fleet belonging to their Princes or States. Only the Venetians for a long time have maintained their arsenal of gullies.
Side 1111 - Boyset, with his crumsters, overthrew the Spanish fleet of great ships conducted by Julian Romero; so contrary to the expectation of Don Lewis, the great commander and lieutenant of the Netherlands for the king of Spain, as he came to the banks of Bergen to behold the slaughter of the Zealanders; but, contrary to his expectation, he beheld his armado...
Side 967 - I hold that the best way is to keep our enemies from treading upon our ground; wherein if we fail, then must we seek to make him wish that he had stayed at his own home. In such a case, if it should happen, our judgments are to weigh many particular circumstances that belong not unto this discourse.
Side 967 - England, without the help of her fleet, be able to debar an enemy from landing ; I hold that it is unable so to do ; and therefore I think it most dangerous to make the adventure.
Side 966 - Spain, if we thus war upon him, to force him to keep his shores still armed and guarded, to the infinite vexation, charge, and discontent of his subjects ; for no time or place can secure them so long as they see or know us to be upon that coast. The sequel of all these actions being duly considered, we may be confident that whilst we busy the Spaniards at home, they dare not think of invading England or...
Side 1108 - ... the shape of our English ships hath been greatly bettered. It is not long since the striking of the topmast (a wonderful ease to great ships, both at sea and...