LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



(Colour plates are indicated by an asterisk) 



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The Great Harry, 1520 . Frontispiece* 



Victory of the Romans over the Car- 

 thaginians, B.C. 256 



The Landing- of Cfesar in England 



King Alfred the Great 



The Moral .... 



A Fourteenth-Century Raid on the 

 Kentish Coast 



Edward III . 



The Battle of Sluys, 1840 . 



L'Espanols sur Mer, 1350 [off Win- 

 chelsea] .... 



The Invasion of France (Froissart) 



The Battle of La Rochelle, 1372 

 (Froissart) ..... 



Bourbon's Expedition to Tunis, 1390 

 (Froissart) ..... 



Lord Berkeley at Milford Haven, 



1405 



Warwick's Action with the French . 

 The Action off Portsmouth, 1545 48, 49 

 Henry VIII's Departure fom Dover, 



1520 



The Capture of Brill, 1572 

 Queen Elizabeth (Contemporary por- 

 trait) 



The Two Admirals, 1588 — Ark Royal 



(Lord Howard) ; San Martin (Duke 



of Medina Sidonia) 

 The Spanish Armada Sailing from 



Ferrol, July 12, 1588 . 

 The Spanish Armada at the Lizard 

 The Armada off Fowey . 

 The First Engagement with the 



Armada .... 



Capture of Don Pedro de Valdez by 



Drake ..... 

 The Armada Treasure 

 The Pursuit up Channel . 

 The Action off the Wight . 

 The Armada in the Straits 

 The Armada at Calais 

 The Rout .... 



Gravelines, July 30, 1588 . 

 Wynter in the Vanguard . 



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The Defeat of the Armada 



1588 : Wreck of an Armada Ship at 



Collieston, Aberdeenshire (McBey) 

 Sir Francis Drake .... 

 The Last Fight of the Revenge : The 



Azores, 1591 .... 



Sir Richard Grenville 

 Armada Playing Cards 

 Cadiz, 1596 ..... 

 Action in the Straits of Dover, 1603 . 

 Capture of a Portuguese Ship in the 



Straits of Malacca, 1602 

 The Straits of Dover, 1602 

 Spanish and Dutch at Gibraltar, 1607 

 The Expedition to Cadiz, 1625 : The 



Anne Royal, Lord Wimbledon's 



Flagship — Troops Landing to 



Attack Puntal Port 

 Attack on Cadiz, 1625 

 La Rochelle, 1625 

 Model of the Sovereign of the Seas 



(Mr. Culver) 

 English, Dutch, and Spanish Fleets 



off Deal, October, 1639 (Hollar) 

 The Battle of the Downs, 1639 

 Ayscue and de Ruyter off Plymouth 

 Action off Dover, 1652 

 The Three Days' Fight [1653] 

 The Battle of Scheveningen, 1653 



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Martin Harpentszoon Tromp . 

 The Battle of Lowestoft, 1665 . 

 The Four Days' Fight off the North 



Foreland, June, 1666 . 

 The Four Days' Fight 

 De Ruyter's Fleet Returning . 

 The St. James's Day Fight, July 25 



1666 



Robert Blake (1599-1657) . 



Prince Rupert, Count Palatine of the 



Rhine ...... 



The Dutch in the Medway, June, 1667 



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Earl Sandwich at Sole Bay 

 Tlie Battle of Sole Bay, May, 1672 . 



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