Identifier: largerhistoryofu01higg (find matches)
Title: A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911
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Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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m ^ Yet it is just to say that the expeditions of Cavendish, likethe later enterprises of Drake, were a school for personalcourage, and were not aimed merely against the defenceless.Cavendish gave battle off California to the great Spanish flag-ship of the Pacific, the Santa Anna, of 700 tons burden,bound home from the Philippine Islands. They fought forfive or six hours with heavy ordnance and with small-arms,and the Spaniards at last surrendered. There were on board122,000 pesos of gold, besides silks and satins and other mer-chandise, with provisions and wines. These Cavendish seized,put the crew and passengers — nearly 200 in all — on shore,with tents, provisions, and planks, and burned the Santa An7ia THOMAS CAVENDISH. THE OLD ENGLISH SEAMEN. 103 to the waters edge. Then he sailed for England with histreasures, across the Pacific Ocean, and thus became the sec-ond English circumnavigator of the globe. This sort of pri-vateering was an advance on the slave - trading of Hawkins
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CAPTURE OF THE SANTA ANNA, SPANISH FLAG-SHIP, BY CAVENDISH. 104 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. and on Drakes early assaults upon almost defenceless towns;but it was often very remote from all honorable warfare. Yetit was by such means that the power of Spain was broken,and that the name of England and Englands queen becamemighty upon the seas. As the sixteenth century began with the fame of the Cab-ots, so it ended with the dreams of Raleigh. It is to beobserved that none of these great buccaneers had done any-thing with a view to colonizing, nor would it have been pos-sible, by armed force, to have held the conquered Spanishtowns. Had England only been strong enough for this. SouthAmerica as well as North America might have spoken theEnglish tongue to-day. But it was the British naval strengthonly that was established, and after the dispersal of the greatSpanish Armada sent by Philip II. against England in 1588,the power of Spain upon the water was forever broken. Thisopened the way f

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