Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less to say. Interest was focused on the actual techniques of air fighting. High light was a re-enactment of the Kiel raid, showing the actual participants leaving and (some of them) returning. The film's thesis: Britain has developed air defenses that can scatter the modern Invincible Armada-Nazi bombing planes...
...British Army and Navy (along with the French) have not undertaken any great decisive action at the front or on the seas (see p. 31). But even if and when they do, even if some great attack should sweep the Germans out of the ocean, some air armada lay Berlin in the dust, some huge offensive run the Reich's soldiers all the way through Prussia and chase Herr Hitler off his cliff at Berchtesgaden, it may well be that these are not the deeds of which Britain will be proudest in World War II. It may be that...
Among the manuscripts in the gift are two fine contemporary copies of the English "Treatise of the Navy" by John Mountgomery, one dated 1574, and the other 1589. The former was especially transcribed for Henry Perey, the "Wizard" Earl of Northumberland, who served against the Armada...
Also included is a manuscript narrative of the expedition by one of the Spanish "Religioses," Bernard de Gongora, written on board the Armada, and sent back to Spain while the fleet was in the English Channel. There are signed documents showing the extent of Philip II's efforts and the organization of the English defence by the Lord High Admiral, Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham...
...collection also are several propaganda publications contemporary with the Armada, issued by both the English and the Spanish. There are eight editions of the famous "Mondoza Letter" written by Sir William Cecil. The Italian edition of the Letter contains for the first time the ironical reference to the "Invincible Armada...