The Armada’s Discomfiture Encourages England to Attack Spain;
Drake and Norris Unsuccessful at Lisbon; The Earl of Cumberland’s
Expedition; Meets with a Bloody Repulse; League of Elizabeth with
_Henri Quatre_, against the Duke of Parma; Sir Thomas Howard in
Command of an English Fleet to the Azores; Frobisher and
Raleigh’s Expedition of 1592; Prizes Taken on the Coast of Spain;
Frobisher Wounded; His Death; Richard Hawkins; Walter Raleigh’s
Expedition to Guiana; Expedition of Sir Francis Drake and Sir
John Hawkins; Repulsed at Porto Rico; Death of Hawkins; England
Anticipates Philip II in 1596 and Attacks Cadiz; The City Taken;
The English Attack and Capture Fayal; Attempt to Intercept
Spanish Merchantmen. I-103
VIII. NAVAL ACTIONS OF THE WAR BETWEEN ENGLAND AND HOLLAND. A. D.
1652-3.
The Dutch Supreme on the Sea; The Commonwealth and the United
Provinces; Negotiations for an Alliance Broken Off; An English
Commodore Fires into a Dutch Fleet; Van Tromp sent to Avenge this
Insult; Blake in Command of the English; The English Temporarily
Masters in the Channel; Great Naval Preparations in Holland; The
South of England at Van Tromp’s Mercy; Blake Collects his Fleet
to meet Van Tromp; A Storm Scatters Both; The Dutch People
Dissatisfied with Van Tromp; He Resigns; De Witt Assumes Chief
Command; Blake Meets the French Fleet under Vendome; He Captures
the Latter’s Fleet; Battle of North Foreland; De Witt Withdraws
at Nightfall; Van Tromp to the Front Again; Denmark Declares
Against the Commonwealth; The Dutch and English Meet in the
English Channel; Blake Beaten; Van Tromp Sails Up and Down the
Channel with a Broom at his Masthead; Battle off Portland; A
Decisive Engagement; Van Tromp Escorts Dutch Merchantmen into
Port; Discontent in the Dutch Fleet; Terrible Loss on Both Sides;
Blake Learns of a New Fleet Fitted out by Van Tromp in April;
They Meet Again; A Two Days’ Battle; Another Effort Two Months
Later; The Brave Van Tromp Killed; The Power of Holland Broken:
The States General Sues for Peace. I-112