Gravelines

The duke added to her train 500 spears, and as she passed through Ghent and Bruges, the citizens received her with the utmost honor.

Thus she journeyed on till being arrived at Gravelines, the Earls of Salisbury and Devonshire approached to do her homage with 500 spears and as many archers.

They conducted her to Calais, and having safely confided her to the care of the English barons, who were appointed to that honor by the king, they returned homeward.

Great was the joy of the Londoners when the train, having passed over the sea to Dover, came within sight of the city gates.

End of section 18.

Section 19 of Sir Francis Drake by Julian Corbett This LibriVox recording is in the public domain Recording by Pamela Nagami Chapter 11 The Battle of Gravelines Part 1 The old story goes that the fatal tidings found Drake on Plymouth Hoe playing bowls with the great officers of the fleet.

He was outmaneuvered, the surprise was complete, but he did not stir or start.

Of all that gallant company, none knew so well as he all that the tidings meant.

Recording by Pamela Nagami.

Chapter 11.

The Battle of Gravelines.

Part 2.

Three huge reactors at Western Europe's biggest nuclear power plant have been shut down by a swarm of jellyfish.

Engineers at EDF's Graveline plant in northern France turned off the units to prevent the marine animals being sucked into the intake of the cooling system.

If they got inside, they could clog the protective screens and cause an automatic trip.

It took four days to restart the reactors, compared to 20 if the jellyfish had got in.

So we're just, you know.

We have Gravelines.

I don't know.

We're infected.

But the Bishop had engaged beforehand that if the religious pretext would not serve the purposes of England, he would furl the banner of the cross and display his own.

He accordingly crossed over to Calais and without even declaration of war succeeded in taking possession of Gravelines, Dunkirk, and a few other places near the sea coast of Flanders in 1383.

But after laying siege unsuccessfully to Ypres, he found it necessary to withdraw once more to Gravelines, surrender the places he had taken, and finally return to England after razing Gravelines to the ground.

The result of the expedition was humiliating enough, but when Parliament met soon after, worse things were discovered.

Money had been received from the enemy for the evacuation of Gravelines, and imputations of corruption were made against the Bishop himself.

This was a charge from which he succeeded in clearing himself, but it was fully proved against several of the captains, and even the Bishop did not escape severe censure and punishment for his conduct of the expedition.

His temporalities were seized by the King, and the offending captains were imprisoned.