Tag Archives: famous sea battles
HISTORIC BATTLE: BATTLE OF WATERLOO
Clément-Auguste Andrieux’s depiction of the Bataille de Waterloo Like the history cartoon posted on Saturday, this should have gone up last week, but here it is now. Even if you live in London, Waterloo shouldn’t just mean the station you get off at for the London Eye or the Old Vic.Two hundred years ago, the […]
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 […]