Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raised ground near the estuary of the Plym River is the promenade called the Hoe, where Sir Francis Drake was playing bowls when news came of the Spanish Armada's approach. Last week that episode was reproduced in ironic miniature; but last week the aftermath was a dreadful tragedy...
...sirens sounded. Lady Astor and her guests stepped outside and watched what she had to admit was "a magnificent sight": flares falling from an armada of Nazi planes, then incendiary bombs planting their fateful beacons, then murder in high explosives. Calm as a Drake, Nancy Astor took note of something which dawned on all Britain last week. The air raids had become part of the Battle of the Atlantic...
...crucial naval battles in the history of Europe except two-the crushing of the Spanish Armada, and Jutland-have been fought on one piece of water. It is not even dignified with the name of ocean, not even included among the Seven Seas. Nevertheless the Romans called it the Sea in the Middle of the Land, as if there were no other lands, no other seas: the Mediterranean...
...Their Finest Hour." Great history makes great literature. Seven years after the Spanish Armada an Englishman wrote: This royal throne of kings, this scept'red isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessed plot, this earth, this...
Thomas W. Lamont '92, of New York City, presented a rare collection of books, manuscripts and broadsides relating to the Spanish Armada, described by Mr. Metcalf as "a collection of scope and importance so great that it may well inspire a reappraisal of the history of the Defeat of the Armada...