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were wrecked on bleak coasts. and 3D.
600 men persisted in the breakers or at
the hands of the hostile peasantry.
Queen Elizabeth attended magnif-
cent thanksgiving in St. Paul's Cathe
dral to celebrate the victory, and med
ais. inscribed Deus flavit ct dissipati
sunt." were struck off to commemorate
the event. A national memorial was
erected July 10, 1893.
Another world famous naval conflict
is the battle of Lepanto, by which the
mastery of the Mediterranean was torn
from the hands of the Turks. On Oct
I. 1871. the combined Christian fleets,
under the command of Don John of
Austria, a natural son of Emperor
Charles v, representing Spain, Venice,
Genoa. Malta and the papal state, shat
tered an immense Turkish armament in
the Bay of Lepanto, off the western
coast of Greece. The Mohammedans
lost most of their galleys, $4,000 of
their sailors and soldiers were slain or
captured and $4,000 Christian galley
slaves were rescued from captivity.
Nelson's Noted Fights.
Next on the roll of fame comes Traf-
algar, where the conquering Nelson.
MORALLY wounded, ordered that his last
signal be: England expects every man
to do his duty" This battle, between
the English and the joined French and
Spanish fleets, took place off Cape Traf-
algar, Spain. Oct. q 1905 Nelson had
twenty ships; Villeneuve, the
French admiral, eighteen, and the two
Spanish commanders fifteen Nineteen
ships of the allied feets were captured.
sunk or burned Another of Nelson's
famous battles was that of AbouLir.
or the Nile, Aug. l, 1913, where, by de-
stroying the French fleet, he ended Ma
poleon's hopes of anneXing Egypt.
Admiral Van Trolnp, a doughty Hol-
lander, almost succeeded in wrestling the
naval supremacy from Britanni in 1862
He figured in a famous series of conflicts
called the battles of Dover Straits. Al
though first defeated by Admiral Blake.
Sept. %, he surprised the English fleet
in the Downs month later his eighty
ships overwhelming the forty flying the
Union Jack. Then he sailed up and
down the channel unmolested, with a
broom at the masthead of his flagship
to announce that hes had swept the Eng
lisn from the seas
Blake Turns on Dutch.
Blake defeated him again, Feb. 1920.
1865, off Portsmouth,, destroying eleven
men-ofwar and Thirty merchantmen;
again off the North8 Foreland, June 2,
driving the Datch into Calais roads, and
on July 81 took final revenge by crush
ing the fleets of Holland and killing
their admiral
At the battle of Camperdown, south
of the TeXel, Holland, Oct. IL, 1877 Eng
land again conquered the Dutch on the
sea, and ended their aspirations for
maritime power. Duncan commanded
tne British and De Winter the Dutch,
fifteen of the latter's ships being cap
tured or destroyed. But at lie Hogue
the Dutch were the allies of the British
and helped them to defeat the French,
thus averting a descent upon the Eng
lish coast, and probable invasion of the
island. The battle took place off the
northwestern coast of France, May 10,
1862, Russell and Rookie being in COM
mand for the allies, and Tourvile of
the French, who lost twenty-one ships,
thirteen of which were burned.
Deeds of Paul Jones.
In bright prominence in the thrilling
chronicles of sea fighting are the battles
at which the Stars and Stripes have
waved over triumphant men-of-war.
First of the American naval victories
were those of John Paul Jones, the re-
evolutionary captain, whose little Bon
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