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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ontinuance of theirvoyage, it gave every hope of at last bringing their nimblefoe to handy-strokes. Once more the great standard gavethe signal for a general engagement, and the English, onlytoo eager for a real trial of strength, did nothing to avoid it. Of all the engagements of the Armada campaign noneis more difficult to unravel than the battle of Portland.Camden himself was at a loss to understand it. 1 It wasmanaged with confusion enough, he says, and so fills thegap with the thunder of the guns. Still, from the Englishand Spanish variants it is possible to dissect points ofcontact, through which may be traced the general lines ofmovement during the long summer day. About five oclock in the morning the English led offwith a reach inshore towards the north-west, as a firstmove towards regaining the weather-gauge.1 Sidonia atonce followed suit, and stood away on the same tack with 1 Lord Howards narrative is here chiefly followed, checked by the Diarioand Vanegass account in Duro.
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PORTLAND AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT 237 his flagship, the four galleasses taking up the movementin advance of him and the greater part of the Armada ata considerable distance astern. Howard soon saw hisinshore move was checked, and thereupon he went aboutand stood away to the eastward on the opposite tack.1The movement brought him close to the Spanish reardivision, which possibly he hoped to weather, but Leyvaimmediately altered his helm and bore up upon himwith the greater part of his division. Still Howard boldlyheld his course, followed closely by Hawkins in the Victory, Sir Kobert Southwell in the Elizabeth Jonas,Thomas Eenner in the Nonpareil, and about eightothers, the rest of the ships which had followed himeasing off a few points and giving the enemy a widerberth. Thus for awhile he was advancing close-hauledacross the front of Leyvas division as it came onbefore the wind roughly in line-abreast with the fastestships forging ahead. The leading Spaniards seem tohave been chiefly Lev

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