 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 512 páginas
...rapidly drifting into the North Sea. THE ARMADA DESTROYED From the 'History of the United Netherlands ' THE battle lasted six hours long, hot and furious;...English ship was destroyed, and not a hundred men were killed. On the other hand, all the best ships of the Spaniards were riddled through and through; and... | |
 | Jerome Bruce Crabtree - 1898 - 468 páginas
...resolutely refused the fierce attempts of the Spaniards to lay themselves alongside. The well disciplined English mariners poured broadside after broadside...while the Spaniards on their part found it impossible, after wasting incredible quantities of powder and shot, to inflict any severe damage on their enemies.... | |
 | Jerome Bruce Crabtree - 1898 - 482 páginas
...resolutely refused the fierce attempts of the Spaniards to lay themselves alongside. The well disciplined English mariners poured broadside after broadside...while the Spaniards on their part found it impossible, after wasting incredible quantities of powder and shot, to inflict any severe damage on their enemies.... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1902 - 236 páginas
...refused the fierce attempts of the Spaniards to lay themselves alongside. Keeping within musket range, the well-disciplined English mariners poured broadside...English ship was destroyed, and not a hundred men were killed. On the other hand, all the best ships of the Spaniards were riddled through and through, and... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 690 páginas
...refused the fierce attempts of the Spaniards to lay themselves alongside. Keeping within musket range, the well-disciplined English mariners poured broadside...English ship was destroyed, and not a hundred men were killed. On the other hand, all the best ships of the Spaniards were riddled through and through, and... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 páginas
...English still partially maintained the tactics which had proved so successful, and resolutely repulsed fierce attempts of the Spaniards to lay themselves...English ship was destroyed, and not a hundred men were killed. On the other hand, all the best ships of the Spaniards were riddled through and through; and... | |
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The battle lasted six hours long, hot and furious ; for now there was no excuse for retreat on the part of the Spaniards, but, on the contrary, it was the intention of the CaptainGeneral to return to his station off Calais, if it were within his power.... 
