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Very good in Good jacket. 176 pages. Illustrations. Index. Decorative DJ, with some wear and tears. A Journal kept on board the Mary Rose brings vividly to life the preparations in the fleet and at court, the shipboard routines meticulously detailed, the deliberations of the commanders, the landing and assault on the city, the successful withdrawal. It is all here, for the writer was Sir George Carew, a member of the Council of War, and so able to give us a privileged view of this, the most ambitious and highly co-ordinated Anglo-Dutch operation mounted from Britain before the campaigns of the Duke of Marlborough. Hitherto there has been no objective account of this once-famous exploit. The key to its true history lies in a thirty-eight-page manuscript. This is a log with entries made from day to day between Easter Sunday 1596, when the author took leave of the Queen at Greenwich and went to join his ship at Dover. The Queen's elation on first reading the dispatches that Sir Antony Ashley brought back from Cadiz was reflected in the stately rhetoric of her letter of greeting to the Lords Generals immediately after their return: You have made me famous, dreadful and renowned, not more for your victory than for your courage; Never was heard in so few days of so great a work achieved. Let the army know I care not so much for being Queen as that I am sovereign of such subjects. On Thursday, 3 June 1596, an Anglo-Dutch fleet, numbering over 120 vessels, sailed out of Plimouth Sound on a secret mission. It carried 6, 000 soldiers, English and Dutch, the largest and best equipped army that had up to that time left these shores. George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes (29 May 1555-27 March 1629), known as Sir George Carew between 1586 and 1605 and as The Lord Carew between 1605 and 1626, served under Elizabeth I during the Tudor conquest of Ireland and was appointed President of Munster. He was an authority on heraldry and the author of Carew's Scroll of Arms 1588, Collected from Churches in Devonshire etc., with Additions from Joseph Holland's Collection of Arms 1579. In May 1596, Carew took part in the expedition to Cadiz with the Earl of Essex, in 1597 in the expedition to the Azores and in the same year during the 3rd Spanish Armada invasion attempt. The Capture of Cádiz in 1596 was an event during the Anglo-Spanish War, when English and Dutch troops under Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and a large Anglo-Dutch fleet under Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, with support from the Dutch United Provinces, raided the Spanish city of Cádiz. Due to the Spanish commander's lack of foresight and organization, the Anglo-Dutch forces met little resistance. In order to deny the raiders their prize the Spanish set fire to their fleet anchored in the Bay of Cádiz; the attacking forces disembarked, captured, sacked, and burned the city and took hostage several of the city's prominent citizens, who were taken back to England to await payment of their ransom. The economic losses caused during the sacking were numerous: the city was burned, as was the fleet, in what was one of the principal English victories in the course of the war. Despite its failure in its primary objective of seizing the Spanish treasure fleet's silver, the raid contributed to Spain's declaration of bankruptcy the following year. Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, was the admiral commanding the fleet, while the landing forces were under the command of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Lord Thomas Howard, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir Francis Vere each commanding a squad. Anthony Ashley was the Clerk of the Privy Council and was a representative of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Cristóvão and Manuel of Portugal, sons of António of Portugal, and supposedly Antonio Pérez, were also on board, although without command. These forces were joined by another 20 ships from the United Provinces, with 2, 000 men on board, who under the command of Admiral John de...
