The story of the most famous sea battle in English nautical history, in which the Revenge was drawn into a suicidal encounter with the entire Spanish fleet while hunting treasure in the Azores. Despite her inevitable defeat after a frenzied 12-hour battle, the Revenge's stand passed into history as a paragon of maritime heroism, immortalized by both Sir Walter Raleigh and Alfred Lord Tennyson. Peter Earle is a world-renowned naval historian and author of the Pirate Wars,
- ISBN10 0413774848
- ISBN13 9780413774842
- Publish Date 20 January 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 March 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 266
- Language English