The Chronicles of America series . NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS TORONTO: GLASGOW, BROOK & CO. LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1920 Copyright, 1918, by Yale University Press PREFATORY NOTE Citizen, colonist, pioneer! These three wordscarry the history of the United States back to itsearliest form in the Newe Worlde called who prepared the way for the pioneers fromthe Old World and what ensured their safety inthe New? The title of the present volume, Eliza-bethan Sea-Dogs, gives the only answer. It wasduring the reign of Elizabeth, the last of the Tudorsovereigns
The Chronicles of America series . NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS TORONTO: GLASGOW, BROOK & CO. LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1920 Copyright, 1918, by Yale University Press PREFATORY NOTE Citizen, colonist, pioneer! These three wordscarry the history of the United States back to itsearliest form in the Newe Worlde called who prepared the way for the pioneers fromthe Old World and what ensured their safety inthe New? The title of the present volume, Eliza-bethan Sea-Dogs, gives the only answer. It wasduring the reign of Elizabeth, the last of the Tudorsovereigns of England, that Englishmen won thecommand of the sea under the consummate leader-ship of Sir Francis Drake, the first of modernadmirals. Drake and his companions are knownto fame as Sea-Dogs. They won the English rightof way into Spains New World. And Anglo-American history begins with that century ofmaritime adventure and naval war in whichEnglish sailors blazed and secured the long sea-trail for the men of every other kind
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