Word: armada
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cause: the second Spanish Armada, which was carrying 5,000 Spanish troops to lead a west-of-England rising against Protestant George I. The fleet had been sent by Spain's wily Premier, Cardinal Alberoni...
...like the first Spanish Armada, the second was scattered by a storm. "Human schemes, unaided by Providence, are of little or no use," reflected the Cardinal...
...Over the target their pilots solemnly pushed out a few five-gallon tins of gasoline, circled to see what would happen. As they had reckoned, nothing much did. An enemy-held tree burst into brief flame, a pillar of smoke soared all of three feet into the air. The armada wheeled, made for home at 70 miles an hour, while bored Germans took desultory pot shots at them...
With officers and men waiting, the Navy is now concentrating on production of these vessels with a high-powered incentive program of talks, movies, demonstrations in factories and shipyards. The $5 billion landing-vessel budget calls for a vast armada of more than 80,000 by year...
...least 61 Luftwaffe craft were shot down by escorting fighters. Bombers accounted for many more. Of the U.S. air armada only 22 bombers were lost, less than half a dozen fighters...