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Title: Heresies of sea power
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Jane, Fred T. (Frederick Thomas), 1865-1916
Subjects: Sea-power Naval history War
Publisher: London, New York and Bombay : Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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hether on land or sea, were easilyto be defeated by a firm front. When the Armada idea first completely materialisedin 1586 Santa Cruz had formed very complete planswhich allowed of the employment of 556 ships and atotal of 94,222 men.1 Whether this force would havesucceeded need not here be discussed, because Philipdid not put the plan into operation. The plan actuallyadopted, though extensive, was on a considerablysmaller scale. In brief, Santa Cruz was to take intothe Channel a fleet sufficient to destroy the Englishfleet, and under cover of this Parma was to transportthe Spanish army in the Netherlands to England inflat-bottomed boats. Substantially the scheme wasnot very different from that of Napoleon at a later era,nor did it differ so very materially from the successfulinvasion of William the Conqueror in 1066. In eachcase naval superiority in English waters was under-stood to be a necessity to success. The invasion was delayed by the operations of1 La Armada Invincible, Duro.
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80 HEKESIES OF SEA POWEB Drake, who destroyed many Spanish ships while theywere yet unequipped, and early in 1588 Santa Cruzdied. Medina Sidonia was appointed in his stead,despite his protestations of lack of the necessary ex-perience. He sailed at the end of May with 130 ships and atotal of 30,493 men, a force far inferior to the originalSanta Cruz estimate, though, so far as soldiers wereconcerned, troops from the Netherlands were destinedto bring it up to something like the Santa Cruz figure.The lessened number of troops to be transported fromSpain reduced the number of ships, for the originalestimate embodies 150 great ships of war besidesmany lesser warships, whereas the whole total ofMedina Sidonias force was only about 130 ships of allsorts, and of these several came to grief on the way.Professor Laughton estimates the outside numbersthat reached the Channel as under 120 ships and24,000 men. Of these not more than sixty-two werefighting ships, several of which were but very lig

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