He set his eyes on England. He created an armada , where he combined the Spanish and French fleets. What we're about to talk about is the battle of Trafalgar.
Three examples-- the first European voyage to India, only 50% of the men lost. The Spanish armada casualties on the Spanish side, 66%. And then the Titanic disaster of the 20th century, 68%.
of in the movies and in history Queen Elizabeth faced threats from the Spanish with an armada that attempted to invade England cross the Channel with a huge uh flotilla of ships in 1588 and the English com combined the
And we used to have all these battles. My father would describe the Spanish Armada .
So I didn't. I became a computer science major. It's awesome. I just started "Armada " by Ernest Cline.
prowess of small seamanship together with uh Good Fortune of having had a gigantic Storm come up at the time dispersed the Spanish Fleet but they defeated the Spanish Armada and I think from that and other things took some lessons away that one of the
convenient, nor never shall be without some peril unto you and certain danger unto me. So she was brilliant at holding off parliament and also suitors, but she was also good at holding off her threats from abroad, most famously against the Spanish Armada in 1588. She appeared-- there was this brilliant moment where she appeared with the troops at Tilbury in full regalia.
B. COATES: Alcohol in small doses does no harm. And also remember that worse things do happen at sea, particularly, obviously, if you are the Spanish Armada . And most of the time, 99% of people watching are willing you to smash it.
And I remember at one point they had-- she was basically at the end of a tournament, and there was this boy. And then the guys had kind of come in first, and they were all kind of milling around, and this armada of girls came. And like, 'cause Amber, she walked in first, and her head was kind of down.
The oyster pirates preferred to ambush the beds by moonlight. Working mostly in pairs, with two men per vessel, they mustered together in ramshackle armadas of 30 or 40 small boats. They waited until cloudless nights, when the full moon shone brightly on the piles of pale shells onshore, before advancing on the oyster companies' camps en masse,