The Sixteenth Century (1485-1603)
defence of Elizabeth against the charge that her policy in the
war with Spain rested on nothing but greed and irresponsible
dilatoriness is entirely successful.^1"^4
Serious work on military history is really new in this period,
and Cruickshank's impressive analysis of the forces available in
war and the use to which they were put shows how much can
be done.^175 He receives some support in depth in studies which
tackle both Elizabethan thinking on war (not negligible) and
the practical problems of armies (pretty overwhelming).^176
The specialist skill of fortification receives attention in a useful
biography.^177 Falls provides a lucid survey of the conquest of
Ireland and a lively picture of England's best commander in
that age.^178 Miller takes on a less familiar soldier.^179 _4Most
striking of all in this field of studies is Mattingly's brilliant and
comprehensive summing up of some forty years' research, by
himself and others, around the events of I588.^180
Lastly, two pieces of local history, Eagleston disposes of the
side issue of the Channel Islands, ^1S1 while MacCaffrey, in his
^174	R. Bruce AVernham, *Queen Elizabeth and the Portugal expedi-
tion of 1589', EHR 66 (1951), 1-26, 194-218; 'Elizabethan war
aims and strategy', J^'eale Ft (n. 125), 340-68.
^175	Charles G. Cruickshank, Elizabeth's Army. O: Clarendon: 1966
(and ed., much enlarged). Pp. xii, 316. Rev: EHR 83, 167; HJ
^176	Henry J. \Vebb, Elizabethan Military Science: the books and the prac-
tice. Madison: U of Wisconsin P: 1965. Pp. xvi, 240. Rev: EHR 82,
383^ - C. S. L. Davies, 'Provision for armies 1509 - 1560, a study
of the effectiveness of early Tudor government', EcHR^2 ij (1964 -
1965), 234-48. - Lindsay Boynton, *The Tudor provost-marshal',
EHR 77 (1961), 437-55; The Elizabethan Militia. L: Routledge:
1967. Pp. xvii, 334. Rev: EHR 83, 6o3f.; EcHR* 20, 389^
^177	L. R. Shelby, John Rogers: Tudor military engineer. O: Clarendon:
1967. Pp. xi_? 182. Rev: EHR 84, 84of.
its Cyril Falls, Elizabeth's Irish Wars. L: Methuen: 1950. Pp. 362. -
Idem, Mountjoy, Elizabeth's General. L: Odham: 1955. Pp. 256.
Rev: EHR 72, 539(1
^179 Amos C. Miller, Sir Henry Killigrew> Elizabethan soldier and diplomat.
Leicester UP: 1963* Pp. xi_s 279. Rev: EHR 80, i6if.
^1£0 Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada. L: Cape:
JQoQ- ^PP* 342- Rev: EHR 77, noffi
^161 A. J, Eagleston, The Channel Islands under Tudor Government,
1643. CUP: 1949. Pp. xii, 194.