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Title: Queen Victoria, her grand life and glorious reign; a complete story of the career of the marvelous queen and empress, and a life of the new king, Edward VII, with a brief history of England
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Coulter, John, ed Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 Cooper, John A. (John Alexander), b. 1868, joint ed
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Publisher: (Chicago, H. Neil)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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EDWARD VI. TO CHARLES I. 533 The navy had dwindled during the reign of Mary, and Elizabeth repairedthe evil without loss of time. She built ships of war, fortified the Medway,and established well-stocked arsenals in the chief towns along the coast.She encouraged the manufacture of gunpowder, instead of buying it fromforeigners. The merchants and people of the seaport towns followed their sover-eigns example, and in the fourth year of her reign Elizabeth was able tosend to sea a fleet with twenty thousand fighting men on board. Elizabeth also coined new silver money, composed of real metal, and thedebased coins of previous reigns was replaced; had the Bible and Book ofCommon Prayer printed in the Welsh language; befriended the arts,sciences, trades, commerce, discoveries of all sorts, exploration and manu-factures; destroyed the great Spanish Armada; encouraged literature tosuch an extent that the Elizabethan Period is regarded as the most bril-liant in English literature. During her r

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