Drake's Great Armada
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Drake’s Great Armada is a work by Walter Bigges. The introduction says nearly five years elapsed between Drake’s return from his Famous Voyage and the despatch of the formidable armament. The text says Drake resolved on sailing home at once by way of Florida, and brought back all the colonists who had been left by Sir Richard Greenville in Virginia.
The text says that ten years afterwards, in 1595, Drake was again at the head of a similar expedition. The text says Drake did not long survive this second failure of his favourite scheme, was attacked by dysentery a fortnight afterwards, and in a month died. The text describes a very large scutcheon painted with the arms of the King of Spain, and a scroll wherein was written these words in Latin, NON SUFFICIT ORBIS, which is as much to say as The world sufficeth not. The text says that on the ninth of June, upon sight of one special great fire, the General sent his skiff to the shore, where they found some of our English countrymen that had been sent thither the year before by Sir Walter Raleigh.
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- Author
- Walter Bigges
- Pages
- 26
- Language
- English
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- Military History
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