Excerpt: ...havoc in the ranks of the hostile Armada. Drake's fire ships, like roaring furnaces, bore down on the Spaniards under full sail, and the light of the flames was reflected against the clouds as the galleons blew up and burned. A terrible gale completed what the English began and the Spanish ships drove on the rocks by scores, where their crews were dashed to pieces or were killed or captured after making their way to shore. Spain's dream of conquering England was at an end and Spain's supremacy upon the seas was ...
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Excerpt: ...havoc in the ranks of the hostile Armada. Drake's fire ships, like roaring furnaces, bore down on the Spaniards under full sail, and the light of the flames was reflected against the clouds as the galleons blew up and burned. A terrible gale completed what the English began and the Spanish ships drove on the rocks by scores, where their crews were dashed to pieces or were killed or captured after making their way to shore. Spain's dream of conquering England was at an end and Spain's supremacy upon the seas was ended also in favor of her younger rival. This was the crowning point of Drake's career and greatness. He was, most naturally, a national figure, the darling of the people and the court. Later he engaged in further voyages, but did not meet with his earlier success, and in 1596 he died at sea not very far from the scene of his first victories and the location of the modern Panama Canal. He was buried with high honors, and his coffin was lowered into the sea draped in the English flag, while English guns thundered a salute in honor of the great naval hero. All England mourned when they heard of his fate, and the Golden Hind was ordered by the Queen to be preserved with scrupulous care in memory of the marvelous journey it had made. When it, too, grew old and had to be broken up, a chair was made from its planks and sent to Oxford University, where it can be seen to the present day as a memorial of Drake's mighty achievements, --feats that stand in a class by themselves, and that will be hard to duplicate to the end of time. CHAPTER XVI HENRY HUDSON When James the First was King of England, and four years after the death of the great Queen Elizabeth, there existed an English and Russian trading company of wealthy merchants which was known as the Muscovy Company--an association of great influence that desired to extend its commerce to far-off China, whose wealth in those days was considered to be fabulous. All the maritime nations of Europe...
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1920 Edwards, Clayton A TREASURY OF HEROES AND HEROINES; A RECORD OF HIGH ENDEAVOR AND STRANGE ADVENTURE NY: The Hampton Publishing Company, c1920 324pp illus color Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis Imperial 8vo pictorial red cloth bookplate on front pastedown, lettering on spine slightly faded, else fine copy with virtually no signs of wear.
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Very Good + No DJ. Printing Not Spec. Choate, Florence & Curtis, Elizabeth. 8vo = over 9" 324pp. Color illus on front cover. 6 color plates. Top/bottom of spine is bumped. Upper left corner of back cover has bubbling to cloth covers from water. Inside of text in upper left corner is a water stain-it appears primarily on the color plates and the first pages surrounding each plate-does not affect text.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. 1920s reprint of Stokes original. 324 pp., 6 color plates by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis, quarto, burgundy cloth with front paste-down label in color, dustjacket with same illustratoin. Text has small bookplates on fep (partly under dj flap) and small owner's inscription, otherwise Fine. Dj is very bright and fresh with no significant tears, just some edge-wear, few edge-nicks, sligtht loss to head of spine. A spectacular copy in a superb dj.
