Drake, Sir Francis quotes
c1540-1596 Elizabethan Seaman Born in Crowndale DevonThe advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.
Drake, Sir Francis
Battles
I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.
Drake, Sir Francis
Army and Navy