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Page 252
... harbour . To understand the English strategy , the confusion , and the course of the battle , it is necessary to have in mind the general layout of the harbour , and it can be reasonably well simulated by the holding out both arms ...
... harbour . To understand the English strategy , the confusion , and the course of the battle , it is necessary to have in mind the general layout of the harbour , and it can be reasonably well simulated by the holding out both arms ...
Page 254
... harbour . Howard had been cautious in 1588 and he was older now ; he did not want to force an entrance past the land guns and come to anchor in a harbour where his fleet would be immobile and vulnerable , as he thought , to the galleys ...
... harbour . Howard had been cautious in 1588 and he was older now ; he did not want to force an entrance past the land guns and come to anchor in a harbour where his fleet would be immobile and vulnerable , as he thought , to the galleys ...
Page 256
... harbour was small , and the English could not sail in haphazardly and choke it with their ships . But what weighed most of all , undoubtedly , was the recollection of the fire - ships and their success against the Armada . If the Eng ...
... harbour was small , and the English could not sail in haphazardly and choke it with their ships . But what weighed most of all , undoubtedly , was the recollection of the fire - ships and their success against the Armada . If the Eng ...
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