Archive for February 21st, 2009
Queen Elizabeth’s Super Armada
Saturday, February 21st, 2009From BBC News: The English navy at around the time of the Armada was evolving revolutionary new tactics, according to new research. Tests on cannon recovered from an Elizabethan warship suggest it carried powerful cast iron guns, of uniform size, firing standard ammunition. “This marked the beginning of a kind of mechanisation of war,” says [...]