“There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards too.”
About This Quote
Attributed to Sir Francis Drake, of England’s Navy Royal in 1588, when news reached him that the Spanish Armada had appeared off the English coast. Drake and his commander Lord Howard were in Plymouth at the time, playing a game of bowls.
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