Elizabeth I (1533-1603), queen of England from 1558, addressing her troops at Tilbury as the Spanish Armada approached (1588). It was on this occasion that she made her famous speech 'I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman …'. From 'The Imperial History of England' by Theophilus Camden (London, 1832). Engraving.

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