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Elizabethan Sea-Dogs, a chronicle of Drake and his companions by William Wood, has a prefatory note saying that Englishmen won the command of the sea during the reign of Elizabeth under the consummate leadership of Sir Francis Drake, the first of modern admirals. Drake is in the Channel, near the Eddystone, with fifty-four sail when he sights a dim blur to windward through the thickening mist and drizzling rain, which the text calls the Great Armada. The text gives the Spanish grand total, for all ranks and ratings, as thirty thousand men and, for the English, only fifteen.
Among a run of calls the text gives are "Out with all your sails! A steadie man at the helm! Give him chace!" The first port of call was Vigo in the northwestern corner of Spain, where Drake's envoy told the astonished governor that Elizabeth wanted to know what Philip intended doing about embargoes now.
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- William Wood
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