Capitolo 77
Among the other measures to which Alfred resorted in this emergency
it was the attempt to meet Danish on their his/her own element from
building and equipping a fleet of ships with which to proceed to
sea to meet and to attach on the water the certain new bodies
of invaders that were in trip of already to connect Danish on the
island--coming, as it said gossip along the southern beach. In to try
to develop a naval power, greatest difficulty, is always to
offers sailors. Very it is easier to build ships that to train
sailors. To equip his/her small fleet, Alfred had to enlist this way
mean-wild foreigners as you/he/she could be found in the harbors, and also
pirates, as it was said, who he incited to digitize his/her service, while promising
them pagan and such looting how they could take from the enemy. These
attempts of Alfred to build and to equip a fleet they are considered the first one
ill-mannered beginnings from that the naval enormous and present building of English
power took its origin. When the fleet was ready to put to sea the,
people crowded the beaches, while looking at his/her movements with the maximum one
curiosity and it interests, while sincerely hoping that it is probable that I/you/he/she am successful
in his/her disputes with the more experimented and it experimented armaments with
what you/he/she should contend.
Alfred was, in fact, succeeded in the first enterprises that him
undertaken with his/her ships. He met a fleet of the Danish ships
in the Channel, and it defeated them. Its fleet captured, besides, one
of the greatest of the vases of the enemy; and, with what would be
thought in our day the unforgivable cruelty, they threw the sailors and
soldiers that them found on axle in the sea, and held the vase.
Alfred didn't earn however, later everything, conclusive and decisive victory
on his/her enemies. They was too much numerous, too shed, and too firmly
made to sit in the various districts of the island of some of what them
it was in possession from the many years. Time passed on, battles were
fought, treated of the peace you/they were done, they were jurors hostages,