Complex sentence: Raleigh having been made Lieutenant General went overland from St Ives and joined Howard in Plymouth and hurriedly put to sea a small fleet (many of the crew were exhausted from the Azores cruise) to pursue the Spanish.
Split into simpler sentences: Raleigh having been made Lieutenant General went overland from St Ives and joined Howard in Plymouth. They hurriedly put to sea a small fleet (many of the crew were exhausted from the Azores cruise) to pursue the Spanish.