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NELSON RECEIVING SWORDS

NELSON RECEIVING THE SWORDS OF THE SPANISH OFFICERS ON BOARD THE "SAN JOSEPH."

FIFTY-TWO STORIES
OF
THE BRITISH NAVY,
FROM DAMME TO TRAFALGAR.

EDITED BY
ALFRED H. MILES.

SEVENTH THOUSAND.

LONDON:
HUTCHINSON & CO.,
34, PATERNOSTER ROW.

PRINTED BY
HAZELL, WATSON, AND VINEY, LD.,
LONDON AND AYLESBURY.

PREFATORY.

This volume contains Fifty-two Stories of the British Navy from Damme to Trafalgar. These stories are arranged chronologically, and, without pretending to be a complete history of the British Navy, provide fifty-two consecutive links of the chain which for a thousand years has bound the sovereignty of the seas to the British throne.

In preparing this series many historical and biographical works have been laid under contribution. Of these Dr. Campbell's "Lives of the British Admirals and Naval History," Southey's "Life of Nelson," Giffard's "Deeds of Naval Daring," Creasy's "Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World," Green's "History of the English People," Hakluyt's "Voyages," and Sir Walter Raleigh's prose epic "The Truth of the Fight about the Isles of Azores" are the most important.

When a story has been adequately told once there is little to be gained by re-telling it in other words; hence the "Story of the Revenge" is given from Sir Walter Raleigh's account with but slight abbreviation, and the "Story of the Spanish Armada" from Sir Edward Creasy's book with but similar abridgment. Many of the stories taken from Dr. Campbell's work and that of Robert Southey have been subject to the same treatment, and the Editor believes they have, for present purposes, gained by condensation.

The Editor desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to his friend, Mr. A. J. Pattle, who collaborated with him in the editorship of his "Fifty-two Stories of the Indian Mutiny," published in 1895 with so much success, and who has rendered valuable service in the production of this work.

He also desires to acknowledge the courtesy of Messrs. Cassell and Co., whereby he is enabled to use the engraving which forms the frontispiece of this volume, from "The Story of the Sea" published by them.

Stories of the sea are always welcome to British boys and girls, and the Editor has no fear for the reception of this collection.

A. H. M.

September 1st, 1896.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

THE BEGINNINGS OF THE BRITISH NAVY

THE STORY OF THE CINQUE PORTS

THE STORY OF SIR EDWARD HOWARD

THE STORY OF SIR THOMAS HOWARD AND SIR ANDREW BARTON

THE STORY OF SIR JOHN HAWKINS

THE WORTHY ENTERPRISE OF JOHN FOX

THE STORY OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE

THE VOYAGE MADE TO TRIPOLIS IN BARBARY

A TRUE REPORT OF A WORTHY FIGHT

THE STORY OF THE SPANISH ARMADA

THE STORY OF THE "REVENGE"

THE STORY OF ADMIRAL BLAKE

THE STORY OF THE FIRST DUTCH WAR

STORIES OF THE SECOND DUTCH WAR

I. THE DEFEAT OF THE DUTCH OFF HARWICH.

II. THE CAPTURE OF DUTCH CONVOYS BY THE EARL OF SANDWICH.

III. THE FOUR DAYS' FIGHT IN THE CHANNEL.

IV. THE DEFENCE OF THE THAMES.

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ALGERINE NAVY

THE STORY OF SIR JOHN BERRY

THE STORY OF THE THIRD DUTCH WAR

THE BATTLE OF BEACHY HEAD

THE VICTORY OF LA HOGUE

THE STORY OF SIR GEORGE ROOKE

OFF GIBRALTAR

THE STORY OF ADMIRAL BENBOW

DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH FLEET OFF MESSINA

THE STORY OF CAPTAIN HORNBY AND THE FRENCH PRIVATEER

OFF CAPE FINISTERRE

THE LOSS OF H.M.S. "NAMUR"

THE LOSS OF H.M.S. "PEMBROKE"

THE STORY OF ADMIRAL THE HONOURABLE JOHN BYNG

IN INDIAN SEAS. 1758-9

THE STORY OF THE "GLORIOUS FIFTY-NINE" AND THE BATTLE OF QUIBERON BAY

THE STORY OF LORD RODNEY

THE LOSS OF THE "RAMILIES"

THE LOSS OF H.M.S. "CENTAUR"

THE LOSS OF THE "ROYAL GEORGE"

THE MUTINY OF THE "BOUNTY"

THE STORY OF LORD EXMOUTH

THE GLORIOUS FIRST OF JUNE

TRIUMPH IN RETREAT

THE MUTINY OF 1797

THE BATTLE OF CAMPERDOWN

THE LOSS OF H.M.S. "REPULSE"

THE STORY OF NELSON'S BOYHOOD

FIRST STEPS UP THE LADDER. A CHAPTER FROM NELSON'S CAREER

ON BOARD THE "AGAMEMNON"

THE EVACUATION OF CORSICA AND THE BATTLE OF CAPE ST. VINCENT

THE STORY OF SANTA CRUZ

THE STORY OF THE BATTLE OF THE NILE

THE BOMBARDMENT OF COPENHAGEN

THE STORY OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE

Nelson Receiving the Swords of the Spanish Officers on Board the "San Joseph"

The Battle off Dover

The Defeat of Sir Andrew Barton

The Spanish Armada

Admiral Duncan Addressing his Crew after the Mutiny at the Nore

The "Victory" at Portsmouth

FIFTY-TWO STORIES
OF THE
BRITISH NAVY.

THE BEGINNINGS OF THE BRITISH NAVY.

A SAXON CHRONICLE.

The founders of the English nation were a maritime people. Before they settled in the British Isles they had to dare the dangers of the deep, and though for nearly four hundred years after their first arrival they were too much occupied with internal strife to think of external enterprise, no sooner had they apparently completed the subjugation of the Britons and effected a settlement of their own differences by uniting the country under one crown, than they were called upon to give vigorous attention to maritime affairs.

Egbert, king of the West Saxons, who, by the conquest of Mercia and Northumbria, became the first overlord of all England, A.D. 828, was soon compelled to deal seriously with the Danes. According to old chroniclers, threatened with invasion in the south, he engaged these formidable foes at Charmouth in Dorsetshire, but sustained defeat. Two years later, however, when they returned and landed on the coast of Wales, uniting with the disaffected Britons in a powerful armament, Egbert proved equal to the occasion, met them in a general engagement at the Battle of Hengestesdun, routed their entire forces, and compelled the Britons to seek safety in their mountains and the Danes to return to their ships. Desultory warfare supervened for some time with ever-varying success until, according to the Saxon Chronicle, the Danes were defeated off Sandwich in a desperate battle in which nine of their ships were taken by the English, and the rest compelled to seek safety in flight. After this they again returned, this time with a fleet of three hundred and fifty sail, devastated the south country and took Canterbury and London by storm.

Hitherto the English had made the fatal mistake of allowing their enemies to land before attempting to grapple with them, and even the disasters which followed naturally upon such a policy did not arouse them to a sense of the necessity of maintaining an efficient fleet. On the contrary, dispirited by their failures, the English seem to have abandoned all thoughts of naval armament, and to have contented themselves with fortifying their cities and defending them against enemies whom they passively allowed to land. This unhappy condition of things continued through the reigns of Ethelbald, Ethelbert and Ethelred; during which time the Danes conquered Northumbria and East Anglia, and invaded Wessex. In A.D. 867 they took York, and in the following year Nottingham. In 870 they defeated and put to death Edmund, king of East Anglia, whose burial-place was named St. EdmundsburyBury St. Edmundsand during the same year fought no less than nine battles in Wessex. Abbeys, churches and monasteries were burnt, and the whole country was given up to fire and the sword.

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