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SIR WALTER RALEIGH, SAILOR, SCHOLAR, POET. CHAPTER VI. NAVAL EXPEDITIONS—TRIAL AND EXECUTION.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

HALF HOURS ON THE QUARTER-DECK.

THE PLANTING OF THE GREAT AMERICAN COLONIES. CHAPTER VII. “TO FRAME SUCH JUST AND EQUAL LAWS AS SHALL BE MOST CONVENIENT.”

OLIVER CROMWELL AND THE SEA-POWER OF ENGLAND. CHAPTER VIII. A LONG INTERVAL IN NAVAL WARFARE ENDED.

WILLIAM, JOHN, AND RICHARD HAWKINS. CHAPTER I. THREE GENERATIONS OF ADVENTURERS.

ROBERT BLAKE, THE GREAT ADMIRAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH. CHAPTER IX. HE ACHIEVED FOR ENGLAND THE TITLE, NEVER SINCE DISPUTED, OF “MISTRESS OF THE SEA.”

GEORGE MONK, K.G., DUKE OF ALBEMARLE. CHAPTER X. THE FRIEND OF CROMWELL, AND THE RESTORER OF CHARLES II.

HALF HOURS ON THE QUARTER-DECK

EDWARD MONTAGUE, EARL OF SANDWICH. CHAPTER XI. NAVAL CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ENGLISH AND THE DUTCH.

PRINCE RUPERT, NAVAL AND MILITARY COMMANDER. CHAPTER XII. THE DUTCH DISCOVER ENGLISH COURAGE TO BE INVINCIBLE.

SIR EDWARD SPRAGGE, ONE BORN TO COMMAND. CHAPTER XIII. THE DUTCH AVOW SUCH FIERCE FIGHTING NEVER TO HAVE BEEN SEEN.

SIR THOMAS ALLEN. CHAPTER XIV. THE PROMOTED PRIVATEER.

SIR JOHN HARMAN. CHAPTER XV. “BOLD AS A LION, BUT ALSO WISE AND WARY.”

ADMIRAL BENBOW. CHAPTER XVI. THE KING SAID, “WE MUST SPARE OUR BEAUX, AND SEND HONEST BENBOW.”

SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVEL. CHAPTER XVII. THE SHOEMAKER WHO ROSE TO BE REAR-ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND.

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INTRODUCTION.

CHARLES HOWARD, BARON OF EFFINGHAM, AFTERWARDS EARL OF NOTTINGHAM. CHAPTER II. “BORN TO SERVE AND SAVE HIS COUNTRY.”

SIR MARTIN FROBISHER, NAVIGATOR, DISCOVERER, AND COMBATANT. CHAPTER III. THE FIRST ENGLISH DISCOVERER OF GREENLAND.

THOMAS CAVENDISH, GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER. CHAPTER IV. THE SECOND ENGLISHMAN WHO CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE GLOBE.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH, QUEEN ELIZABETH’S FAVOURITE MINISTER. CHAPTER V. AMERICAN COLONISATION SCHEMES.

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