The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-09-13

'nurcIlIl, InpH HTNl loTh VI 'Ht pli'
ish admiralty, modified the grand
fleet In defiance of orders not To do
so, and thus was ready to spring Mt
Germany with every sea dog of Eng
land when war broke forth. II Col
oncl Churchill thus acted he had high
English example in the case of Lord
Howard Eninghnm. 1t was he who
ms high admiral Of England In 1888
disobcycd most f~lagrantly Queen EllzN-
heth's own order to dismnntle part of
his fleet and was therefore possessed
OF the strength to smash the great mr.
NADIA of Spain when Its lofty gal
Icons came rolling into the channel.
Spain was ut that time perhaps the
most powerful nation Ia the world.
England was by comparison feeble.
Spain sought world empire. Her
Philip believed II possible to make
himself the head of n universal o
archy, sharing power only with the
pope. England stood in his way.
Hence the dispatch of the armada to
make England vnssnl to Spain, burn
her hcretics and establish the sway OF
Philip wei both the old and the new
hem%ispheres.
Howard, with his captains, was Mt
a game OF bowls In Plymouth town
when there came scuttling into the
harbor II Scotch %privntccr with the
news that the armada was ever then
Off the Cornish coNst. Forthwith there
was n rush for messengers, n lighting
OF alarm fires and n press of cap
tnins for their ships. Only Sir Frances
Drake remained uncOnccrncd. There
was time, he observed, both to win the
game and beat the Spanlnrds. So aim
Ing their bowls very carefully and cool
~ they finished what Hallam reck-
ons the best and bravest match that
ever was scored"
The royal navy. augmented now by
several times It's number Of armed mer-
chantmcn. had got together II fleet
of 19I vessels. The bitterly punished
but still lndOmltablc Dutch sent some
help from Holland. The largest YES
sci of all was the Triumph, measuring
LOO tons. The number of men was
slightly over 1900. Howard, com-
handing, was himself a Catholic, but
though Philip proclaimed his cause the
cause Of the church against the here
tic. Howard and all the other English
Catholics remained s%plendidly loyal.
Against them Philip sent a force the
tremendous extent OF which Is given
by Hakluyt. The vessels numbered
IN ~, t,S, than "a nf than, 0n1tannG
which Hakluyt says were Of ian huge
bignesse and Of marvellous force and
so high that they resembied great cas-
ties" Manning the fleet were 5000
sailors, 2,0SS slaves and 10000 soldiers,
besides mobiles and gentlemen, all un-
der command Of the duke of Medina
Sidonia. At Dunkirk, the great Span
ish general, Farnese, was collecting an
other fleet for the transport of troops
To England as soon as the armada
should win the command of the scas.
"The Invincible Armada" as the
S%pnnlards termed II, entered the Chan
mel, headed for Plymouth In the hope
of surprising the English, found How
ard sallying forth to meet II, and stood
Oft for Dunkirk. Howard first sighted
his enemy on Saturday, the Goth Of
July. Letting the great fleet pass,
he followed, marrying II so severe
ly that the Spaniards lost several ships.
Medina Sidonia at last brought his
ships to anchor in Calais roadStead, his
larger craft lying m the outer circle.
Howard dared not attack nj close quar-
tiers, since his vessels were much in
ferior In tonnage and in ordinance,
while, rs Sir Wallace Raleigh says,
"the Spnniard had an army on board
him and Howard had none" How
ever on the night Of the 10Th he sen;
In eight fircships, so alarming the
Spanlards that they cut their cables
and put to sea. One of the largest
g~aleasses fouled another and went
ashore. In the confusion the rest cf
the fleet became badly scattered so
that In the morning the feat Of reas'
seinblIng In fleet formation was most
difficult. Now vas the opportunity of
the English to attack on something like
equal terms.
Drake and Fcner were the first "a
Tickle their cumbersome foes. Then
came Fcnton, Southwell, Burton and
the rest, with the lord admiral plunging
in himself. While the action was that
| of detached vessels rather than squad
rons It was general and II was furious
" hot. Drake was hullcd no less than
40 times and his cabin was shot out
| from under him. The shot Of n dcmi'
| c~uiyerln landed on the dinner table of
the earl of Northumberland. But the
English ships were the smarter sail
Ors, the English got the weather gauge
and they kept the vessels in a
smother Of smoke and flame as they
smote' the unwicldy Spanish hulls, on
the decks Of which huddled the great
mass Of soldiery, worse than useless In
this action, where the English simply
would not come tn close quarters and
fight the matter out with boarders. Sir
Martin Froblsher IA at one time In
action with no less than four of the
enemy's vessels. Drake sank a gal
leon which took to the bottom with her
no less than 1000 men. His formation