Word: lording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contained in the collection are nine contemporary manuscripts and sixty-four books published in the half century following the great naval attack of King Philip II of Spain, on Queen Elizabeth's England, and its repulse by the British naval forces under Lord Howard...
...expedition by one of the Spanish "Religioses," Bernard de Gongora, written on board the Armada, and sent back to Spain while the fleet was in the English Channel. There are signed documents showing the extent of Philip II's efforts and the organization of the English defence by the Lord High Admiral, Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham...
Included are forty books printed in England before 1640 including the rare English translation of the "Orders given by the Duke de Medina Sidonia to be observed in the voyage towards England"; "The Holy Bull and Crusado of Rome," 1588; and the official account, written for the Lord High Admiral by Petruccio Ubaldini...
...Russians we want to enter Berlin," explained Lord Fisher, "not the French or English." But even though the Russians were then on Britain's side, even though enemy airplanes then offered small hazard, Lord Fisher's plan never got to first base. Bitterly he observed: "The unparalleled Armada of 612 vessels constructed to carry out this decisive act in the decisive theatre of war was diverted and perverted to the damned Dardanelles...
...Lord Fisher's biographer represents the Germans as scared to death in 1914-18 that the British would force the Baltic Gate, which they considered weak. He says they derided the British Navy's stupidity for not attempting it. It is not likely that such sentiments prevail now in Berlin or that a British naval attempt at the Baltic will be seen in World War II. Though the German Navy is this time far weaker (42 ships v. 254 for the Allies), this time the Russians (with 28 more ships) cannot be counted on to join a march...