In Search of a Kingdom Quotes

“Dee’s bold plan for a British Empire to replace the Spanish hegemony over the New World, appealing though it was, was likely to provoke King Philip to invade England.”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“Various news has been current here with regard to them,” he wrote to Philip,”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“Elizabeth, and especially Francis Drake, whom Mendoza recognized as the chief threat to Spain’s imperial ambitions.”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“The gallows that Magellan had erected still cast a shadow over a hill,”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“At sea, days were divided into six four-hour shifts, called watches.”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“In his peculiar morgue could be found a dozen corpses, no less than 144 heads, and 306 arms and legs.”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“he became King of Portugal, King of Naples, King of Sicily, the Duke of Milan,”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“In the Philippines, Magellan blundered into a confrontation with a combative local chieftain, Lapu Lapu.”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“European traders wishing to reach the Spice Islands previously had traveled east rather than west,”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“her right hand gently, even protectively, rests on a globe to symbolize her newly acquired power in world affairs.”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“Elizabeth sat for a portrait designed to capture the grandeur of the occasion. In the painting,”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“Later, an English ship caught sight of the abandoned beasts swimming in the dark green sea on a journey to oblivion.”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“One Irishman, Melaghin McCabb, claimed he slaughtered eighty Spaniards with his axe.”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“only 67 ships and ten thousand men survived, and many of those survivors perished as they tried to return to Spain.”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“Lepanto was the scene of the victory that served as Prince Philip’s claim to fame, until the English thoroughly undid it.”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“The farther these potential invaders were kept from vulnerable English shores, the better.”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“Drake ended on a note of caution. He needed firepower as soon as possible.”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“convened a court that hastily found Burroughs guilty of desertion and pronounced the sentence: death.”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“Drake, intensely annoyed by this challenge to his command,”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“With him went Spain’s best hope for defending itself against Drake.”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“Spain’s top naval officer, the Marquis of Santa Cruz commenced a steep decline”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“Her Majesty dined on board, and after dinner conferred the honour of knighthood on the captain.”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“On April 4, 1581, almost seven months after his return, she strode onto the deck of the Golden Hind at Deptford”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“general, knighthood was conferred on those who glorified the Crown through military service,”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“executioner placed the noose around the condemned man’s neck, Elizabeth intervened to spare him.”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“Thomas Appletree, who had fired the shot, was condemned to death by hanging,”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“Events moved on, and in July 1579, Elizabeth was nearly assassinated as she traveled on a barge along the Thames.”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“nearly three weeks of unbroken blue water.”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“Drake sailed westward without interruption until March 9, 1580”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire

“Heaving long passed the point of no return to South America,”
― Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Invention of the British Empire