The Last Fight Of The Revenge
Peter Earle
Republication of a classic of naval history by the author of the best-selling Pirate Wars
The Last Fight of the 'Revenge' is the true story of the most famous sea battle in English nautical history, in which the impossibly arrogant Sir Richard Grenville with just one ship, the Revenge, fought an armada of fifty-three Spanish ships in the waters of Flores in the Azores.
Three years after playing her part in the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the Revenge was drawn into a suicidal encounter with the Spanish fleet whilst hunting treasure in the Azores. Despite her inevitable defeat and surrender after an epic and frenzied twelve-hour battle, the Revenge's last stand passed into history as a paragon of British maritime heroism; immortalised by both Walter Raleigh and Alfred Lord Tennyson.
With unique access to Spanish maritime records, leading naval historian Peter Earle has produced a balanced and intriguing account of this most astonishing of naval encounters, and a compelling panorama of the age in which it occurred. "The Last Fight of the 'Revenge' is founded on scholarly knowledge of the period and the archives ... but it's greatest strength is that it is written with a vigour, colour and humanity which do justice to an epic history" Times Literary Supplement
"Earle writes with the dramatic flair of an Alan Moorehead, his descriptions thrill like scenes from an Errol Flynn swashbuckler, and the historical research appears impeccable" Washington Post
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