a daring navigator and a prince of corsairs of whom we are half ashamed to be proud.
Yet that his end was so inglorious mattered little. It is a mark of the greatness and reality of what he had accomplished that his presence was not needed. His work was done; his school was founded; everyone from Howard downwards was now of his party; and though he did not live to know it, yet even as he passed away, distraught with failure, England was fairly launched upon the course that brought her to the empire of the seas.
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Publication Information: Book Title: Drake and the Tudor Navy: With a History of the Rise of England as a Maritime Power. Volume: 2. Contributors: Julian S. Corbett - author. Publisher: Longmans, Green. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1898. Page Number: 440.
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