Excerpt from The Voyage to Cadiz in 1625: Being a Journal Thus the command of the greatest joint-naval power that had ever spread sail upon salt water - the Dutch contributing 16 sail and the English 80 sail - was given to a very unsuccessful general, a landsman, whom the sailors, vexed at his appointment, viewed with contempt. (ibid). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.