... The Admiral commanded his fleet not to fall upon (the Spanish ships)... Notwithstanding, the
Vice-Admiral, Sir Richard Grenville, being in the ship called the Revenge, went into the Spanish fleet and
shot among them, doing them great hurt, and thinking the rest of the company would have followed:
which they did not, but left him there and sailed away. The cause why, could not be known. Which the
Spaniards perceiving, with seven or eight ships they boarded her: but she withstood them all, fighting with
them, at the least twelve hours together and sank two of them....But, in the end, by reason of the
number that came upon her, she was taken to their great loss for they had lost in fighting and by
drowning, above four hundred men. Of the Englishmen, there were slain about a hundred."
-John Huyghen Van Linschoten
as quoted in Eyewitness to Histor
What did Grenville wrongly believe?
a. The other ships would leave him on his own
b. The other ships would come with him.
c. The Spaniards were undefeatable.
d The Admiral disliked him.
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