Category: History - British
The proclivities of parents are not uniformly manifested in their children, and the rule of “Like father, like son” has its exceptions. The three generations of the Hawkins’ family, who distinguished themselves as maritime adventurers in the reign of Henry VIII. and Queen Eliz...
The proclivities of parents are not uniformly manifested in their children, and the rule of “Like father, like son” has its exceptions. The three generations of the Hawkins’ fam...
2. CHAPTER II.Queen Elizabeth has been magniloquently designated the RESTORER OF ENGLAND’S NAVAL POWER and SOVEREIGN OF THE NORTHERN SEAS. Under her sovereignty Lord Charles Howard wielded su...
3. CHAPTER III.Martin Frobisher had no “lineage” to boast of; he was of the people. His parents, who had respectable connections, are supposed to have come from North Wales to the neighbourhoo...
4. CHAPTER IV.In the time of Queen Elizabeth it was not unusual for men of the highest rank to devote their private fortunes and their personal services to the advancement of what were consid...
5. did. The general, out of his great mercy and humanity, promised theirCavendish and his crews must have been getting rather disgusted with their hard and bitter experiences up to the time they fell in with the _Santa Anna_. They were about sixteen...
6. CHAPTER V.Endowed with a rare combination of high qualities and capability, Sir Walter Raleigh may be pronounced one of the most distinguished men of the Elizabethan era. He approved hims...
7. CHAPTER VI.The desirability of further crippling or arresting the reviving power of Spain, engaged the continued attention of the queen and her advisers, but there was much vacillation, on...
8. CHAPTER VII.After the accession of James to the throne of England in 1603, very little happened of interest in connection with naval affairs, except the unfortunate expedition of Sir Walter...
9. CHAPTER VIII.Cromwell, with his great grasp of mind, saw at once the vast importance of the English navy, which, during the civil wars, had been neglected, and bent all his energies, not onl...
10. CHAPTER IX.To designate some of the naval heroes of early times gallant “sea dogs,” is not disrespectful to these worthies. Dashing courage, indomitable perseverance, and open-handed gener...
11. CHAPTER X.Among the distinguished heroes of the seventeenth century, men born to command, and qualified above their fellows, to achieve renown in the “profession of arms,” as general in t...
12. CHAPTER XI.Remarks, by persons of mature age, are not uncommon, in our time, upon the precocity of the rising generation. It is alleged that we have no boys and girls nowadays, that they a...
13. CHAPTER XII.Some heroes of the olden time played many parts, which are in these later days assigned to distinct and separate performers. The division of labour was not then so well understo...
14. CHAPTER XIII.Those who are “born great” enjoy favourable conditions for also achieving greatness, provided they are possessed of the necessary qualifications. On the other hand, there have b...
15. CHAPTER XIV.The martial and naval heroes of England have been recruited from all classes, patrician and plebeian, with a large contribution from the class intermediate, to which Allen belon...
16. CHAPTER XV.Of the early life of this gallant commander there are no records extant. It is known that in 1664 he commanded the _Gloucester_, of fifty-eight guns, and in the following year t...
17. CHAPTER XVI.John Benbow is represented to have been born at Shrewsbury about the middle of the seventeenth century, and to have been apprenticed to a butcher, but to have broken his indentu...
18. CHAPTER XVII.Cloudesley Shovel was born at or near Cley, a small town on the north coast of Norfolk, about the year 1650. At that time Cley, which is about ten miles west from Cromer, had a...