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The Spanish Armada

The Spanish Armada was sent by King Phillip II earlier this year against our home, the English Isle, and will become legendary for its size, power, and its defeat and near-annihilation by the English agile ships and the notorious storms along our rocky British coast that hindered the Armada as it fled. Drawn from many different sources, the 130-ship, 30,000-man band of heathens was supposed to invade England, remove our queen from her throne, restore Catholicism as the practiced religion, and end the Dutch revolt. The ships included galleons and galleasses, and merchant ships essentially stolen from Baltic and Mediterranean merchants. With somewhere close to 2,500 guns, the fleet was seemingly unstoppable. Our genius

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