Naval galleys and barricaded sally ports failed to stop the English assault.

Evidence

Two great Gallies which were within the hauen, were placed as you see without the stone wall aforesaid, of purpose to beat crosse the straight of land: and so to flancke vs in our approch, in which Gallies were planted eleuen peeces of ordinance and 400 souldiers, which ordinary did belong vnto them & were al smal shot, which ordinance & small shot as wel on land as in the Gallies, was wonderfully imployed, that it was strange to heare the same. But God who hath appointed the meancs, preserued our troopes aboue all expectation for by the direction which was giuen vs by M. Carleil the Lieftenant generall to march close by the sea side, which was also lower then all the rest of the ground & by the aduantage of the darknesse, the day light being not as yet broken forth, we escaped the most danger of their thundering, and made our approch with verie small losse to speake of. And so finding at one end of this Fortification a litle place for their horses to salley, which was also made vp with a good Barrikado of wine pipes filled with earth, we attempted the same, and finding our pikes longer then theirs, our bodies better armed, and our mindes more resolutely prepared, we plucked the same down with our hands to the ground and will they, nil! they, we entered perforce, in which fight the Captaine of the place being a gallant Personage, was first hurt, and then taken Prisoner, and almost all of his officers slaine, with diuers others of his companie. — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 2984

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s purpose of understanding how Drake’s forces took defended Spanish ports before the fireship raid at Cádiz. — 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
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 2984

Library Connections

• Surviving Cadiz permanently cured English sailors of fearing shore guns, galleys, and fire-ships. #contradicts (0.85) — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 243