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The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
character were effectively used by the Rhodians in their war with the Syrians, a hundred years before the commencement of the Christian era, according to Livy. The English also employed them in their engagements with the famous Spanish armada, in 1588, and very effectively, too.--Previously, in the course of the long war between Spain and the Netherlands, they were used, with fearful effect, in the defence of the city of Antwerp, to facilitate the capture of which the Duke of Parma constructed e sometimes so arranged as to explode when near, or in contact with the fleet. Grappling irons are sometimes placed upon fireships to enable those navigating them to hook the vessel they would attack, and so secure its destruction. When, in 1588, the much-vaunted Spanish armada came into the British channel for the purpose of invading England and subduing the revolted Netherlands, and was lying in those narrow straits, between Dover and Calais, and along that low, sandy shore--one hundred