. The year after the Armada, and other historical studies . tions from Philip some months before ;all Spain and Catholic Christendom were ringingwith preparations for the fray, and the great fleet—or what Drake had left intact of it on his summertrip to Cadiz—was mustering at Lisbon under gallantold Santa Cruz, who was already dying broken-hearted at the neglect of his wise precautions, atthe confusion, waste, and ineptitude which fore-boded the crowning disaster. THE SPANISH ARMADA. 203 With the subsequent mishaps and catastrophe thisstudy is not concerned. My object has been toshow how circu
. The year after the Armada, and other historical studies . tions from Philip some months before ;all Spain and Catholic Christendom were ringingwith preparations for the fray, and the great fleet—or what Drake had left intact of it on his summertrip to Cadiz—was mustering at Lisbon under gallantold Santa Cruz, who was already dying broken-hearted at the neglect of his wise precautions, atthe confusion, waste, and ineptitude which fore-boded the crowning disaster. THE SPANISH ARMADA. 203 With the subsequent mishaps and catastrophe thisstudy is not concerned. My object has been toshow how circumstances drove Philip to adopt thecourse he did, both with regard to the invasion itselfand his claim to the English crown ; and to demon-strate that the ostensible prime object of the Armada,the conversion of England to Catholicism, althoughundoubtedly desired by Philip, was mainly used asa means to his real end—namely, a close politicalalliance with England, without which Spain wasinevitably doomed to the impotence which eventu-ally fell upon A FIGHT AGAINST FINERY.
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