. Medieval and modern history; an outline of its development . he English The Englishhad become a sea-going people. At the opening of the necessarilythirteenth century England had asserted her right to rule thenarrow seas. Her commercial connection with Flanders,and still more with the territories which she held in thesouthwest of France, created interests which exercised adecisive influence upon her foreign policy in the fourteenthcentury. Before the close of the fifteenth, her navigators 3IO Struggle for Colonial E^npire [§310 had had a fair share in the explorations of the time, and toone o
. Medieval and modern history; an outline of its development . he English The Englishhad become a sea-going people. At the opening of the necessarilythirteenth century England had asserted her right to rule thenarrow seas. Her commercial connection with Flanders,and still more with the territories which she held in thesouthwest of France, created interests which exercised adecisive influence upon her foreign policy in the fourteenthcentury. Before the close of the fifteenth, her navigators 3IO Struggle for Colonial E^npire [§310 had had a fair share in the explorations of the time, and toone of them, Cabot, had fallen the honor of first seeing thecontinent of Empire g^j|| throudi the whole sixteenth century, the great age of begins in the , , v. 1 ^ ^-i ^i struggle with Spanish and Portuguese commerce, or at least until the very Spain. end of it, England was not a sea power. It was the conflict %Titi5h ^^^^ Philip II., the struggle for the defence of religious and Empire, political independence, as in the case of Holland, which be-. The Mosque at Delhi Bk. I., Chaps. The warfarein the Span-ish LastFight of theRevenge(ArberReprints) ;Payne, gan the naval glories of English history and turned the atten-tion of her people to distant commercial enterprises. It was a most attractive warfare. Rich plunder, strangeadventures, and the striking of hard blows at the bitterest ofenemies, all were to be had at one time. It is not strangethat with these inducements, and with the energy and enthusi-asm of a young race in an age of great events on every side,the deeds of the English seamen in the first age of the strugglefor empire have never been surpassed in any later one. §311] The First English Colonies 311 311. The First English Colonies. — In one sense themodern colonial supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon race is de-served, for the real colony, as a new home of the people, indistinction from the trading-station, was begun by was the
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