Thanks for the great links, Fernando. Of course I now remember this famous battle, as portrayed in the movie 'Elizabeth'. Drake's fireship attack was deadly, but the chief destroyer of the Spanish Armada was the horrid weather. That stretch of ocean around Scotland and Ireland has been claiming ships for centuries. It would seem that the main reasons England and Japan were never successfully invaded was because of none other than the angry seas. This respect for the tides is very apparent in Japanese mythology and legend.
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