...s, some 25,000 soldiers, 3,450 sailors, 2,088 slaves, 2,630 pieces of ordnance, and immense naval and military stores. Besides these, the Prince of Porma had 30,000 picked troops ready to embark in Flanders , whilst Guise promised to march 12,000 men into Normandy, to be transported by the Armada to England. To meet the vast naval odds, there were in the English navy only thirty-four ships, carrying 6,...