The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 137
ferent ports in Spain; howthe damages were repaired and the fleet againset sail. On the 29th of July the fleet was at last seen wieldy galleasses, canonading the enemy and thenescaping nimbly out of range. For days thesequick crafts teased and harassed the clumsy gal-leons, and pelted their… … THE BATTLE OF ACTIUM, 31 B.C. off the Lizard on the English coast, bearing downunder full sail in the form of a crescent, andstretching seven miles from horn to horn. Onthe same day and night ten thousand beacon-firesleaped from end lo end of Englands shores togive warning of the enemy. It was a…
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