English Seamen Under the Tudors, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Henry Richard Fox Bourne

9780484552837: English Seamen Under the Tudors, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 048455283X ISBN 13: 9780484552837

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from English Seamen Under the Tudors, Vol. 1 of 2

I have here attempted to set forth all that is most memorable in the careers of the great leaders of Eng lish navigation and English sea-fighting under the Tudors, so far as they had anything to do with naval affairs; but, instead of writing a number of short biographies, it'seemed to me better to make the bio graphical details subordinate to the history of the famous enterprises to which they belong. After a short introductory chapter, and three other chapters which, relating to the reigns of Henry VII., Henrv VIII., and Edward VI., may also be looked upon as introductorv to the fuller narrative of English sea-going under Elizabeth, I have therefore so arranged my ma terials as to present, in each of the following volumes, a separate historical episode. In the first is given, as concisely as seemed possible with due regard to the interest of the subject, the story of the efforts made by Elizabethan navigators to reach the Indies and acquire their wealth by arctic voyaging, and of the efforts issuing therefrom, by which were begun the English colonization of America, and the English mastery of India. In the second, the same memorable half-century has been traversed, chiefly to show the way in which, while trading enterprise and bold love of adventure were being peaceably exercised by the arctic explorers and the founders of our colonial empire, another set of men, or the same men applying themselves to a differentobject, went to sea with the determination of wresting the wealth of the Spanish Main and the Southern Seas from the nation which had learnt to think them ex clusively her own. The outcome of these efforts was the Great Armada Fight, and the naval supremacy of England over all the nations of Europe.

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