Young people's history of England . the ships were picked fromthe flower of the Spanish navy. As soon as it became known in England that the Ar-mada had set sail, the fervent patriotic spirit of the coun-trv, led and inspired by the dauntless queen herself, wasElizabeth instantly aroused. Elizabeth made ready toprepares to YYieet hcr aucicnt foe with unquailino; heart. meet the ^ invasion. Her fleet was small and weak. She asked thecity of London to give her fifteen ships and five thou-sand men. The city, in reply, promptly agreed to fit outthirty ships and to furnish ten thousand men. But aft
Young people's history of England . the ships were picked fromthe flower of the Spanish navy. As soon as it became known in England that the Ar-mada had set sail, the fervent patriotic spirit of the coun-trv, led and inspired by the dauntless queen herself, wasElizabeth instantly aroused. Elizabeth made ready toprepares to YYieet hcr aucicnt foe with unquailino; heart. meet the ^ invasion. Her fleet was small and weak. She asked thecity of London to give her fifteen ships and five thou-sand men. The city, in reply, promptly agreed to fit outthirty ships and to furnish ten thousand men. But afterall was done, the English fleet only comprised eighty ves-sels all told, the largest of which was scarcely larger thanthe smallest of the ships in the Armada. The commandof the fleet was given to Lord Howard of him, as captains, were Drake, Hawkins, and Fro-bisher. The fleet assembled at Plymouth, on the EnglishChannel, to await the approach of the Armada. Mean-while the queen quickly assembled her army, which had. THE DEFEAT OF SPAIN. 219 been raised with marvellous rapidity, at Tilbury; and sheherself appeared among her soldiers, arousing Elizabeththeir ardor to the highest pitch. I have, ^t exclaimed, but the body of a woman. But I havethe heart of a king, and of a king of England, too ; andthink foul scorn that Parma, or Spain, or any princeof Europe should dare to invade the borders of myrealms! When the Armada sailed into the Channel (July 21,1588) the English fleet waited in Plymouth harbor until ite:ot by. Then Howard and Drake sallied forthand assailed the big Spanish galleons in the da in therear. At the same time numberless small craft ^^^^ issued in swarms from the English harbors along thechannel, and joined the fleet in harassing the continued for several days. The Armada cast anchoroff Calais, in order to effect a junction wath the army underParma. But Parmas troops, held in check by an Englishsquadron off the Netherlands
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