Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fleet, Mary Rose, after his favorite sister. But on July 19, 1545, the willful monarch looked on appalled at Southsea Castle, near the historic naval town of Portsmouth, as the top-heavy Mary Rose capsized and sank in 40 ft. of water while repelling the attack of a French armada. "Oh, my gentlemen, oh, my gallant men!" cried Henry, as he watched some 665 seamen and soldiers go down with the ship...
...abandoned a month-long mediating effort and swung behind Britain, on the principle that unprovoked Argentine aggression could not be condoned. In the early 3 stages of the Falklands crisis, Washington's support for London consisted largely of providing some intelligence information and fuel supplies for the British armada at Ascension Island, the closest British staging area to the Falklands. That help has now been extended to cover a broad range of war goods, such as Sidewinder missiles, which the British could use to replace those fired by the task force Harrier jump jets, and Stinger portable antiaircraft missiles...
...Carlos, the waterway gave the British fleet little maneuvering room against air attack. That problem was compounded by the fundamental weakness of the task force: its lack of adequate air cover and of an early-warning system like the U.S. AWACS aircraft. With only 36 Harrier jets aboard the armada's aircraft carriers, Hermes and Invincible, Task Force Commander John "Sandy" Woodward had to take the chance of using missile-bearing warships as part of his frontline antiaircraft defense. His tactic: to establish a British naval "gun line" around the vulnerable assault ships, supply vessels and troopships that actually carried...
...this emotionally rife history is still well taught in British schools. "The English think that the most important event of the Elizabethan age," explains Anglican Historian Henry Chadwick, who is also an adviser to Archbishop Runcie, "was the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, when the King of Spain sent a fleet to conquer the English ships and to invade and impose Roman Catholicism on the people. When people say the Pope ought not to come, they are saying that something like the Spanish Armada is on our doorstep again. They have a notion that one last ship...
...Armada or Katherine of Aragon, by Garett Mattingly...