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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 416

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of Henry VII of England, we have theGreat Harry of about eight hundred tons. Shewas a big, bulky vessel, and she formed themodel for ships of war for the next hundredyears. The Spanish built their great ships ofthe invincible Armada very much on the samelines, only much larger. Tennyson in his… … AND ABOVE THEM ALL, AND STRONGEST OF ALL, TOWERED THE GREAT HARRY 403 . Longfellow. 404 War-ships—Ancient and Modern [March, In fact, the very size of the Spanish vessels issaid to have been, to a great extent, the causeof the ill success of the Spaniards; the guns ontheir great ships being mounted…

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