reasons. This essay will tell you why the Spanish failed so badly and why England won. Admirals Medina Sidonia the Spanish admiral was not as strong as the English admirals Drake and Howard for a lot of reasons. This will have caused the Spanish a major setback from winning the Spanish armada because they would not have been as strong as the English navy. Medina was not as strong as drake and Howard because he had never commanded a navy at sea before. If the Spanish had maybe chosen an admiral that had
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fastest Asian swimmer to cross the English Channel. She was awarded Arjuna Award for her achievements. She currently has two children. She lives in the United States‚ in Los Angeles‚ California. She became the fastest Asian people Asian swimmer to cross the English Channel . She was awarded Arjuna Award for her achievements in 1983. Mihir Sen (16 November 1930 - 11 June 1997) was an Indian swimmer‚ best known for being the first Asian to swim the English Channel in 1958‚ and for being the first
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When she heard that the Spanish were coming she went to tilbury and made a famous speech. She said “My loving people‚ we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety‚ to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes‚ for fear of treachery; but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear‚ I have always so behaved myself that‚ under God‚ I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my
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to swim across the English Channel. Born in New York City‚ Ederle began swimming as a young child and started competing as a teenager. From 1921 to 1925 she broke many American and world swimming records. At the 1924 Olympics in Paris‚ France‚ Ederle won a gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle relay and bronze medals in the 100-meter and 400-meter freestyle races. Looking for a new challenge‚ Ederle turned to channel swimming. After her first attempt to cross the English Channel failed in 1925‚ she
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of Scots (a Catholic Queen) and had a papal bull written against her. King Phillip felt it was his duty as a Catholic to punish her. In spite of being a rich and powerful nation Elisabeth managed to defeat the Spanish before they even set foot on English soil. What went wrong? Why did they fail? Firstly‚ the Spanish were dogged with bad luck from the very beginning. The weather‚ which was stormy‚ seemed to be against them. Their ships were damaged and to stop at the nearest port‚ Coruna‚ to be repaired
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many political and religious reasons to invade England. Because Phillip had been named as Mary’s successor before her death‚ he thought he had a right to the English throne. Another reason for the Armada was the race between Spain and England in trade and supremacy in the seas. Spain was one of the most powerful nations in Europe‚ but English naval power was becoming a threat to Spain’s domination of the seas. This was particularly true with respect to the New World. Spain’s discovery of the New World
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1916. For the British the challenge was complicated by the English Channel. War material had to be railed to a Channel port and‚ until special ferries were built to carry wagons‚ loaded onto a ferry‚ reloaded onto a French train or barges and carried forward to the main supply dumps behind the British
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Physical Geography Filed Work The aim of this field work was to study the long profile and its characteristics of the River Lym. The velocity then drops at the mouth where it tends to deposit its load The velocity then drops at the mouth where it tends to deposit its load This is the general long profile of the river where the gradient decreases as you go down the river. The source is highest point of the river basin which usually is a mountain. This is the general long profile of the river
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as Southampton could be considered under threat from economic development due to the fact they are extremely reliant on nearby industries as the area of Southampton is known to have advantages for industry as it is sheltered from storms in the English channel‚ deep water for large ships and lots of flat land for development. However‚ there is a large amount of pressure on Southampton‚ the majority of the pressure is based on Southampton’s water as along its western edge is a large area of salt marsh
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denotation in Dover Beach’; 1.) Straits (line 3) a narrow area of water that loins two larger areas of water. In the poem‚ it refers to the Straits of Dover‚ i.e. the sea between Dover and Calais‚ about twenty miles across separating the English Channel from the North Sea. 2.) Girdle (line 23) an item of ladies undergarment. In the poem. Arnold happily embellishes his lofty meditation with a delicate allusion to be Symposium of Plato. 3.) Melancholy (line 23) - mainly literary and of the
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