In one month eight hundred vessels left their havens for the eastern ports alone.
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John Lothrop Motley Last Updated: February 7, 2009
"The coming generations may see," says a contemporary historian, "the fortifications erected at that epoch in the cities, the costly and magnificent havens, the docks, the great extension of the cities; for truly the war had become a great benediction to the inhabitants."
"History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89, Vol. II. Complete"
John Lothrop Motley Last Updated: February 7, 2009
Maguire, too, took his thumbs from their havens of rest, and looked dissatisfied.
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