A Life of Richard Badiley

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Excerpt from A Life of Richard Badiley: Vice-Admiral of the FleetThe reason for this forgetfulness may be that the enterprise in which Badiley held the chief command, and around which public interest at the time most centred, was not, in the event, successful. While Blake was establishing the naval supremacy of Eng land ih the war against the Dutch, Badiley was endeavouring to defend her interests in the Medi terranean Sea. In this attempt he was overpowered by superior force, and, after a gallant struggle, he was driven out of the Straits. The defeat was for the time so decisive that the peoples of the Medi terranean seaboard, both Christian and Turk, looked upon the English as an undone nation. The Dutch ¿ag for a short time ¿ew triumphantly in the Mediterranean.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.