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The Americans first proved that the English could be beaten at their own game on the sea. They did what the huge fleets of France, Spain, and Holland had failed to do, and the great modern writers on naval warfare in Continental Europe men like Jurien de la Graviere have paid the same attention to these contests of frigates and sloops that they give to whole fleet actions of other wars.
His smile was fine and malicious, his speech facile, revealing beneath the rude exterior of the corsair the subtle man of affairs, who, from nothing, had made himself King of Algiers, and was now, by the invitation of Soliman the Magnificent, Admiralissimo of the Ottoman navy. Well may Jurien de la Gravière say that "in the sixteenth century even the pirates were great men."
So conspicuous were the energy and sagacity shown by him, that most seamen will agree in the opinion of Jurien de la Gravière: "They will always be in the eyes of seamen his fairest title to glory. He alone was capable of displaying such boldness and perseverance; he alone could confront the immense difficulties of that enterprise and overcome them."
La Serre: Essais Hist. et Crit. sur la Marine Française. Lapeyrouse-Bonfils: Hist. de la Marine Française. Jurien de la Gravière: Guerres Maritimes. Since the above was written, the secretary of the navy, in his report for 1889, has recommended a fleet which would make such a blockade as here suggested very hazardous.
On November 25, 1560, he gave up the ghost: he was a great seaman, but still more a passionate lover of his country; despotic in his love, but not the less a noble Genoese patriot. Brantôme, Hommes illustres étrangers. Œuvres, i. 279. Froissart's Chron., transl. T. Johnes ii. 446, 465, ff. See the Story of Turkey, 170. See Jurien de la Gravière, Les Corsaires Barbaresques, 193-215.
High up on the hillside may be seen "the Emperor's Castle," which marks the traditional place where Charles' great pavilion was pitched on the morning of the fatal 23rd of October. "The climate of Africa" it is the caustic comment of Admiral Jurien de la Gravière "was evidently unsuited to deeds of chivalry."
Scott, who witnessed his chief's bearing at this time, always considered that he never exhibited greater magnanimity than in this resolution, which Jurien de la Gravière also has called one of his finest inspirations. Great, indeed, was his promptitude, alike in decision and in act; but he was no less great in his delays, in the curb he placed on his natural impetuosity.
Then he was employed in the melancholy task of carrying on Alva's detestable work in Flanders. See The Story of the Moors in Spain, p. 278. See the complete list in Girolamo Catena, Vita del gloriosissimo Papa Pio Quinto, 1587. Read the admirable and graphic description of the battle in Jurien de la Gravière, La Guerre de Chypre et la Bataille de Lepante, ii., 149-205.
This revictualling of Coron, says Admiral Jurien de la Gravière, was one of the skilfullest naval operations of the sixteenth century. It was clear that, while Doria had effected almost nothing against the Barbary Corsairs, he always mastered the Turks. The Sultan was eager to discover Kheyr-ed-dīn's secret of success, and counted the days till he should arrive in the Golden Horn.
Clerk: Naval Tactics. Jurien de la Gravière: Guerres Maritimes. Mahon: History of England. Mahon: History of England. For these, see Troude: Batailles Navales. See Plate VIII. Troude: Batailles Navales de la France. Lapeyrouse-Bonfils. Mahon: History of England. Campbell: Lives of the Admirals. Mahon: History of England. Martin: History of France. Martin: History of France.
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