id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 23496 Kingston, William Henry Giles How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 .txt text/plain 168586 6435 68 a fleet of 738 ships, having on board 14,956 mariners, each of whom commander hoped to carry the English ship by boarding. lost with all on board, and the crew of the captain's ship mutinied captain went on board the ship of the Spanish admiral, Don Alfonso war with Spain a powerful fleet of eighty English and Dutch ships was complaint that ships of war had more guns placed on board than they The Dutch fleet consisted of about 50 men-of-war, 25 fire-ships, and About the same time Captain Purvis, while chasing a French ship, got his _Elizabeth_, a French ship of war, of 64 guns and 600 men, and a small A fleet of ten ships, under the command of Admiral Byng, was sent out to Captain Richard Pearson, commanding the 44-gun ship number wounded, for, besides the ships' crews, the fleet had on board ./cache/23496.txt ./txt/23496.txt