The British nation a history / by George MWrong . the last night of life Mary wrote to Philip, urginghim to invade England, and to exact vengeance for her death. It was, she said, Gods quarrel. PhilipArmadaTs88 ^^^ ^^^^ allied with the Guises, leaders of the Catholic party in France, and they agreedupon a plan. The Popepromised help in money,and in 1588 the mightyArmada that was to con-quer England set three centuries itsdefeat has been thetheme in England ofpatriotic outbursts; andthe danger appeared real ^^^^i^sS^:!^---?^^^^^enough, for Parma, now ^n English Ship Z wi; c
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . the last night of life Mary wrote to Philip, urginghim to invade England, and to exact vengeance for her death. It was, she said, Gods quarrel. PhilipArmadaTs88 ^^^ ^^^^ allied with the Guises, leaders of the Catholic party in France, and they agreedupon a plan. The Popepromised help in money,and in 1588 the mightyArmada that was to con-quer England set three centuries itsdefeat has been thetheme in England ofpatriotic outbursts; andthe danger appeared real ^^^^i^sS^:!^---?^^^^^enough, for Parma, now ^n English Ship Z wi; commander in Holland, was ready to throw thousands of trained soldiersacross the Channel; France and Spain acted together;Catholic Europe was embittered by Marys death, and,above all, Elizabeth seemed unprepared. Yet that the Ar-mada would fail was hardly doubtful from the first. TheEnglish Catholics proved on the whole loyal to Elizabethagainst Philip), and neither France, to secure whose crownwas among Philips ambitions, nor the Pope would help. 312 THE BRITISH NATION the King of Spain unreservedly. Nor was the Armadaitself fonuiduble on the sea. It numbered about one hun-dred and thirty ships, some of them huge. Their hightowers and broad bows were imposing, but they worked
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