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Article: `He Breathed and They Were Scattered'.(Spanish Armada)
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- Calliope
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- May 1, 2000
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Nightfall brought new perils for the Armada.
Sometime in the darkness, the wind shifted to the northwest. By morning, the hapless Spanish fleet was being blown, not safely out of the English Channel, but toward the sandbanks of Zeeland. A new day--and a terrible new chapter--had begun in the Armada's ill-starred odyssey.
Aboard the flagship San Martin, Medina Sidonia and his officers could only watch helplessly as the shoreline--and certain doom--drew ever nearer. Once aground, the stranded vessels would be pounded to splinters by the weather and the English guns. The duke's officers begged him to save himself. Instead, Medina Sidonia calmly summoned a ...