Page 16 - NS-2 Textbook

SEA POWER AND EARLY WESTERN CIVILIZATION 9

GOLD RAHft o
.... ~ SHETLAND IS.
....... 1J
...... WRECK
" .. !" FAIR IS. (AUG. 20)
ORKNEY {) 0 "
. \\, NOR

\
\
\
OF FOflTH

SEPT. 8
STORM
OISPfRSES
FLEET

The route of the Spanish Armada, 1588. The British defeated the Armada in the English Channel near Calais, after which the Spanish fleet fled
northward around Britain and [reland to try to return home.

Pennsylvania, and Maryland were begun by groups gains was the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, which
seeking religious freedom. The last colony on the East the English soon renamed New York. Between 1689 and
Coast was Georgia (1732), whose settlers volunteered as 1763, the English fought a series of wars with the French,
a way to get out of debtors' prisons. now their only serious rival at sea. During the Seven
With the English, French, and Dutch all eagerly seek- Years' War (1756-63), known in America as the French
ing colonies, conflict was inevitable. Between 1665 and and Indian Wat; the two powers fought what amounted
1674, the English and Dutch fought three fierce naval to a world war, with land and sea battles occurring in
wars. The English were the winners, and one of their almost every part of the globe. England's ultimate vic-