Cadiz
place · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Spanish port city, site of a failed English expedition in 1625.
An expedition to Cadiz had in the interval failed to accomplish anything, and there were reasons for believing that Buckingham was about to pick a quarrel with France in addition to the quarrel with Spain.
The diverting of His Majesty’s course of wars from the West Indies, which was the most facile and hopeful way for this kingdom to prevail against the Spaniard, to an expenseful and successless attempt upon Cadiz, which was so ordered as if it had rather been intended to make us weary of war than to prosper in it.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Iberian port city cited as the starting and ending point of ancient eastern voyages.
Those most famous mariners were well acquainted with that sea, because Hanno, when Carthage was at the height of her power, sailing from Cadiz to the farthest confines of Arabia, and doubling the promontory now known as the Cape of Good Hope (the ancient name seems to have been Hyperion Ceras), described in a book the entire route he had taken, the appearance of the coasts, and the location of the …