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...Frank Lincoln Olmsted read last evening in Sever 5 very interesting paper entitled "The Story of the Armada...
...real cause for the Spanish Armada was the bitter hatred that existed between the two great religious sects, the Protestants and Catholics. The age, too, was one in which revolutions and great fanatic movements were not only frequent but popular. But the preparations received their final stimulus from the execution of Mary, Queen of Scotts. Before her death she had bequeathed her right to the English crown to Philip II., now king of Spain. The assistance which the revolted Netherlands had received from the English still further roused the Spaniards against them...
...other great expedition seems to have been so hampered and delayed as that of the Spanish Armada. The army lay in readiness for over a year before the fleet was in a sea-worthy condition. Finally, in the last of May, 1588, the fleet sailed for England. It was compsed of 130 vessels, 3200 guns, 10,000 sailors, and 20,000 soldiers. to oppose them England had collected 200 small ships and about 10,000 soldiers. We can little imagine now what a terror the Spanish name then possessed. Philip II. was the greatest mouarch then living and the Spanish...
...Story of the Armada. Bowdoin Prize Dissertation. Mr. Frank Lincoln Olmsted. Sever...
...Story of the Armada. Bowdoin Prize Dissertation. Mr. Frank Lincoln Olmsted. Sever...