The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 132
in which they sailedto ih coasts of Spain and beyond. As trader;-, Lepanto, the Spaniards and the defeat of theArmada, the Dutch in the four days tight off theDowns, the English at Trafalgar, and the Amer-icans at Mobile Hay. In the two thousand years after Salamis, navalwarfare and naval armaments… … 322 SEA-FIGHTS AND WAR-SHIPS—ANCIENT AND MODERN at close quarters, the opponents scaled the sidesof each others vessels and fought hand to hand.The fight of the Spanish Armada was the firstgreat sea-battle which saw the introduction, bythe English, of the sailing navy as a substitute forthe rowing…
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