A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 57

you/he/she had checked the tide of recapture French in front of the walls of Calais.
Piracy English in the Channel was notorious in the fifteenth century,
and in the sixteenth one it reached patriotic proportions. Henry VII had
the trip of Cabot encouraged to Newfoundland but the papal section of
new-funds earths among Spain and Portugal it blocked to England the door
of legitimate expansion, peaceful;  and there can be you doubt few that
this prohibition made many converts to the Protestantism among the English
people of sea. Also Mary could not prevent his/her subjects to plunder
on Spaniard and Portuguese commerce and colonies;  and with Elizabeth
accession plundering they grew in a national pastime. Hawkins broke in
Spanish monopoly in Western Indies, Drake bursts in them Pacific
preserves, and it swindled their defenses;  and an innkeeper of followers
almost plundered every Spanish and Portuguese colony.

Phillip was finally provoked in a naval war for which is the English
and he was not prepared. Spanish rigidity embraced the Spaniard I marinate
as the Spanish theology. Seizing himself/herself/itself to Mediterranean and medieval
traditions, Spain had failed to become himself/herself/themselves account of the conditions of the to sea-be able or
naval tactics. England, on the other hand it had, widely under the
inspiration of Henry VIII, adapted its military harbor to oceanic purposes. A type
of vase had been evolved able crossed the ocean, of
manoeuvring and of fight under it veils;  to Drake the ship was become
the unity of fight, to the Duke of Medina Sidonia a ship was simply a
vehicle for soldiers, and a sea-struggle was simply an earth-struggle on sea.
The highest illustration of the incapability of Spain to adapt himself/herself/themselves to new
perhaps conditions are the fact that only a marquis or duke could be
made a Spanish admiral.

England was cleared of applications similar to political and military
authority in 1569, when medieval feudalism made its last offer for the
controls of policy English. For the ten year-old Elizabeth you/he/she had been driven from