ISBN: 1407649973

[EAN: 9781407649979], New book, [SC: 9.01], [PU: Hardpress Publishing], G. A. HENTY,LITERARY, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 264 pages. Dimensions: 8.0in. x 5.4in. x 1.0in.An … More...

[EAN: 9781407649979], New book, [SC: 9.01], [PU: Hardpress Publishing], G. A. HENTY,LITERARY, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 264 pages. Dimensions: 8.0in. x 5.4in. x 1.0in.An excerpt: And we beseech Thee, O Lord, to give help and succour to Thy servants the people of Holland, and to deliver them from the cruelties and persecutions of their wicked oppressors; and grant Thy blessing, we pray Thee, upon the arms of our soldiers now embarking to aid them in their extremity. These were the words with which the Rev. John Vickars, rector of Hedingham, concluded the family prayers on the morning of 6th December, 1585. For twenty years the first portion of this prayer had been repeated daily by him, as it had been in tens of thousands of English households; for since the people of the Netherlands first rose against the Spanish yoke the hearts of the Protestants of England had beat warmly in their cause, and they had by turns been moved to admiration at the indomitable courage with which the Dutch struggled for independence against the might of the greatest power in Europe, and to horror and indignation at the pitiless cruelty and wholesale massacres by which the Spaniards had striven to stamp out resistance. From the first the people of England would gladly have joined in the fray, and made common cause with their co-religionists; but the queen and her counsellors had been restrained by weighty considerations from embarking in such a struggle. At the commencement of the war the power of Spain overshadowed all Europe. Her infantry were regarded as irresistible. Italy and Germany were virtually her dependencies, and England was but a petty power beside her. Since Agincourt was fought we had taken but little part in wars on the Continent. The feudal system was extinct; we had neither army nor military system; and the only Englishmen with the slightest experience of war were those who had gone abroad to seek their fortunes, and had fought in the armies of one or other of the continental powers. Nor were we yet aware of our naval strength. Drake and Hawkins and the other bucaneers had not yet commenced their private war with Spain, on what was known as the Spanish main--the waters of the West Indian Islands--and no one dreamed that the time was approaching when England would be able to hold her own against the strength of Spain on the seas. This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 9781407649979

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ISBN: 9781407649979

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2010, ISBN: 1407649973

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ISBN: 9781407649979

Paperback, [PU: Hardpress Publishing], Anthologies (non-poetry)