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HISTORIC FAILURE: SPANISH ARMADA TRIES TO INVADE ENGLAND
In July, 1588, one hundred and thirty warships, twenty-two of them fearsome fighting galleons, set sail from Spain, bent on invading England. They’d tried to do that back in the spring, but had to return to port after a bad storm damaged several ships. They should have taken that as an omen, because the July […]