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... Seamen - Illness of the Queen and DeathNottingham continues Lord High
Admiral under James Is sent Ambassador to Spain - Buckingham made Lord
High Admiral - Death of Nottingham - His Character 199 CAPTAIN THOMAS
FENNER .
... Seamen - Illness of the Queen and DeathNottingham continues Lord High
Admiral under James Is sent Ambassador to Spain - Buckingham made Lord
High Admiral - Death of Nottingham - His Character 199 CAPTAIN THOMAS
FENNER .
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Released from the attainder - Serves against the Armada - Sent to the Azores
with a Squadron — Attacked by a Spanish Fleet - Brave conduct of Sir Richard
Greenvil - Engaged in the Capture of . Cadiz - Second to Essex at the Azores ...
Released from the attainder - Serves against the Armada - Sent to the Azores
with a Squadron — Attacked by a Spanish Fleet - Brave conduct of Sir Richard
Greenvil - Engaged in the Capture of . Cadiz - Second to Essex at the Azores ...
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Thus it is said that he sent five - and - forty ships to the coast of Bretagne , which
fell in with a French fleet coming out of Brest ; that an action ensued , which
ended in the destruction of the two largest ships , one in each of the hostile fleets
...
Thus it is said that he sent five - and - forty ships to the coast of Bretagne , which
fell in with a French fleet coming out of Brest ; that an action ensued , which
ended in the destruction of the two largest ships , one in each of the hostile fleets
...
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... and sent him in a boat with five of the crew , with directions to land him on a
rock , and not to trust themselves with numbers that were on the shore ; but they
disobeyed his orders and her Majesty ' s instructions , were seized by the natives
...
... and sent him in a boat with five of the crew , with directions to land him on a
rock , and not to trust themselves with numbers that were on the shore ; but they
disobeyed his orders and her Majesty ' s instructions , were seized by the natives
...
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Here also they found and brought to England the horn of the narwhal or unicorn
fish , which being the first ever brought home , was sent to Windsor , “ and
reserved as a jewell in the Queen ' s wardrobe . ” In York Sound they had a
skirmish ...
Here also they found and brought to England the horn of the narwhal or unicorn
fish , which being the first ever brought home , was sent to Windsor , “ and
reserved as a jewell in the Queen ' s wardrobe . ” In York Sound they had a
skirmish ...
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| Title | Memoirs of the Naval Worthies of Queen Elizabeth's Reign: Of Their Gallant Deeds, Daring Adventures, and Services, in the Infant State of the British Navy |
| Author | John Barrow |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1845 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 17 juuni 2010 |
| Length | 495 pages |
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