Drake quickly formed his four great galleons, each English ship firing a full broadside as she passed.

Evidence

Drake’s Raid on Cadiz | Naval History (U.S. Naval Institute)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Surviving Cadiz permanently cured English sailors of fearing shore guns, galleys, and fire-ships. — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 243; The English navy reorganized into squadrons mid-campaign in imitation of the Spanish — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 691; Broadside positioning, devised by Drake, was a success. He ordered the four great galleons to form and each ship fired a full broadside as she passed. — The Life of Sir Francis Drake (+1 more)

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