Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Benson, M.P., fired on all ships that did not dip their flags; and where a family called Heaven once ruled a kingdom of the same name. The islanders still point to the treacherous rocks that surround them and gleefully tell of the time a great galleon of the Spanish Armada went aground, or of where His Majesty's proud new battleship Montagu piled up in 1906. Aside from "bluebottles"-the island's name for tourists-the Lundyites do not like outsiders to get too close...
...Armada, by Garrett Mattingly. An exciting history of the great sea battle, and of the climate of political and religious strife that brought the English and Spanish fleets into collision...
...Armada, Mattingly...
...ARMADA, by Gorreff Mattingly. What is sometimes called one of the decisive battles of the world, the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 by Sir Francis Drake, settled almost nothing and was about as ineptly fought as any large-scale naval engagement in modern history. This account of the battle, and of the political and religious currents surrounding it, is brilliant history...
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