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Title: Two English queens and Philip
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp, 1847- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598 Mary I, queen of England, 1516-1558. (from old catalog) Elizabeth I, queen of England, 1533-1603
Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's sons (etc., etc.)
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l methods she might avoid war, even at this eleventh hour. The damage done by Drake was in great part irreparable. Not only were many stores and ships destroyed in Cadiz, but for weeks afterwards the English fleet lay off the coast of Portugal,capturing great numbers of vessels loaded with pipestaves, for the water and wine casks of the Armada.These could not be quickly replaced, and their loss led to the short and bad water supply in the fleet, which was one of its worst calamities. When Drake sailed away, Spain was crippled for a time ; and the capture of the rich Indies galleon, San Felipe, completed the discomfiture of King Philip, who had no alternative now but to order Santa Cruz to make ready his ships To prove the importance of this point, one of Mendoza's arguments in favour of the proposal of Huntly and the Scottish Catholics to attack England across the Border by land instead of by an invading fleet, was the great cost of the pipe staves,which he said had already been 150,000 ducats.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH from THE PAINTING BY MARC GHEERAERTS AT THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY - PARMA AND THE ARMADA 465 in Lisbon, in a hurry, not now to invade England, but to prevent Drake from intercepting and plundering the silver fleet, whose safe arrival in Spain would alone enable Philip to proceed with his plan of invasion in the following year. The injury inflicted by Drakes raid was a terrible one to Philip, but he plodded on, still convinced of the goodness of his methods and the ultimate certain victory of his cause. To Parma, in Flanders, the news of Drakes attack brought anguish and discouragement beyond words,for he was less blinded by fervour than his uncle was,and was brought nearer to his practical difficulties.He was a great commander and saw plainly the weak points of Philips scheme for the Armada, so far as it was communicated to him. A divided command and strictly limited authority were repugnant to him, a sovereign Prince and practically supreme in Spanish Flanders; and from the first h

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