1/21 ALONSO DE CHAVES, _circa_ 1530 II. LORD LISLE, 1545 ALONSO DE CHAVES ON SAILING TACTICS INTRODUCTORY The following extract from the _Espejo de Navegantes_, or _Seamen's Glass_, of Alonso de Chaves serves to show the development which naval tactics had reached at the dawn of the sailing epoch. The treatise was apparently never published. |