Travels Through the Alps of Savoy: And Other Parts of the Pennine Chain, With Observations On ...
Travels Through the Alps of Savoy: And Other Parts of the Pennine Chain, With Observations On ...
Forbes, James, 1871-1938
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The Duke of Parma was at Bruges. Thirty thousand more of the old Spanish troops, under the most distinguished commander of the age, might well have turned the scale. Where then was Farnese at this conjuncture ? Nothing can be more wretched than the defences of his apologists : leaky boats^-aailors not to be depend- ed on — want of vessels of the right draught of water— such are the pretences alleged for breaking his engagements to Philip, and disappointing the magnificent hopes entertained of h...is co* operation. He had had months, nay years, to provide himself against all these contingencies, While the Armada was strug- gling up the Channel, and while, during three anxious days, it Fay off the coast of Flanders, he remained all the time quiet at Bruges: not until it was in full sail to the northward, did he come to the coast at all. It suited the policy of Philip to ex- onerate him of all blame ; and thus he has escaped more easily at th* bands of posterity than could otherwise have happened.
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