Identifier: draketudornavy02corb (find matches)
Title: Drake and the Tudor navy, with a history of the rise of England as a maritime power
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Corbett, Julian Stafford, 1854-1922
Subjects: Drake, Francis, 1540?-1596
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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id. p. 3G). She thinks, wrote Windebank, they went to placesfor their own profit, rather than for her service. It is clear from thegenerals Answers, &c. (ubi supra), that the cause of her anger was notthat they went to Lisbon and Corufia, but that they did not go to Santanderas well, before landing Don Antonio. (See especially answers to Articles 1and 2.) As we have seen, the queens express orders were that they shouldgo to Corufia, not, as Major Hume says, that they should not. It was againsttheir will and solely in consequence of her orders that they went there atall. 334 DRAKE AND THE TUDOR NAVY tons, Almiranta of the Portuguese galleons, one largehulk, two fine ships, and two galleys, besides smallercraft. According to Drakes usual practice, his intention wasto attack immediately. A strong advance-guard was atonce embarked in the boats and pinnaces, and made itsway to the east side of the bay opposite the town, to seizea landing-place. Here, in spite of the rocky nature of the
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// aiker <Sr Boutallsc. CORUNA AND ITS ENVIRONS 1 coast and of buildings which afforded excellent naturaldefences, the advanced party were suffered to land un-opposed, and laboriously climbing in their armour thestone walls that traversed the ground, they advancedforthwith towards the base-town.2 In half a mile the 1 The fortifications shown are modern, but are upon the site of thoseexisting in 1589. - See A Project for a Form of Defence against a Landing of an Army (MS. in the Pepysian Library), where details of this landing are given by aneye-witness as an example. THE LISBON EXPEDITION -335 skirmishers were in contact with the enemy in the suburbsthat lay along the bay, but as the English supports cameup, they were quickly driven within the defences. Theweather, however, turned so wet and stormy that nothingfurther could be done, and the troops quartered that nightin the hamlets, villas, and mills they had seized.1 Hold-ing the position they did, they barred the way against anya

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