 | Readers - 1903 - 360 pages
...soon found that even in close fight the size of the Spanish ships was no advantage to them. Their bulk exposed them the more to the fire of the enemy ; while...placed too high, shot over the heads of the English. The alarm having now reached the coast of England, the nobility and gentry hastened out with their... | |
 | D.C. Heath and Company - Readers - 1903 - 360 pages
...soon found that even in close fight the size of the Spanish ships was no advantage to them. Their bulk exposed them the more to the fire of the enemy; while...placed too high, shot over the heads of the English. The alarm having now reached the coast of England, the nobility and gentry hastened out with their... | |
 | Readers - 1907 - 264 pages
...soon found that even in close fight the size of the Spanish ships was no advantage to them. Their bulk exposed them the more to the fire of the enemy; while...placed too high, shot over the heads of the English. The alarm having now reached the coast of England, the nobility and gentry hastened out with their... | |
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English ; and the latter soon found, that even in close fight the size of the Spanish ships was no advantage to them. Their bulk exposed them the more to the fire of the enemy ; while their cannon, placed too high, shot over the heads of the English.... 
