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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Floating castle
Hello,
in the book "Parrot and Olivier in America" there's a piece of text describing historical Plymouth (in the 1st half of the 19th century) and "floating castles" are mentioned:
"Monsieur was surveying Plymouth, Devonport, Stonehouse, Stoke Temples and those magnificent floating castles which had so recently set his fellow contrymen afire."
The fellow countrymen are the French.
Could you explain me, what is meant by the "floating castles", please? Is it a castle build on water?
Thanks you very much.
in the book "Parrot and Olivier in America" there's a piece of text describing historical Plymouth (in the 1st half of the 19th century) and "floating castles" are mentioned:
"Monsieur was surveying Plymouth, Devonport, Stonehouse, Stoke Temples and those magnificent floating castles which had so recently set his fellow contrymen afire."
The fellow countrymen are the French.
Could you explain me, what is meant by the "floating castles", please? Is it a castle build on water?
Thanks you very much.
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From an online description of the Spanish Armada: Central to the Armada was the mass of merchant vessels, known as hulks or urcas, converted for war by the addition of higher fore and after castles and a greater complement of guns and carrying the Spanish army with its artillery and baggage.... The Armada set sail from Lisbon on 28th May 1588 (British date or Old Style), picking its way out of the Tagus River and working north up the Portuguese coast until it reached Corunna on the north west coast of Spain. The journey from Lisbon revealed the unwieldy nature of the Armada.
- From an online description of the Spanish Armada: Central to the Armada was the mass of merchant vessels, known as hulks or urcas, converted for war by the addition of higher fore and after castles and a greater complement of guns and carrying the Spanish army with its artillery and baggage....
- The Armada set sail from Lisbon on 28th May 1588 (British date or Old Style), picking its way out of the Tagus River and working north up the Portuguese coast until it reached Corunna on the north west coast of Spain.
- The journey from Lisbon revealed the unwieldy nature of the Armada.
- The larger galleons, tall bulky floating castles designed for boarding and hand to hand combat, were slow and unweatherly.
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From an online description of the Spanish Armada:
Central to the Armada was the mass of merchant vessels, known as hulks or urcas, converted for war by the addition of higher fore and after castles and a greater complement of guns and carrying the Spanish army with its artillery and baggage....
The Armada set sail from Lisbon on 28th May
Central to the Armada was the mass of merchant vessels, known as hulks or urcas, converted for war by the addition of higher fore and after castles and a greater complement of guns and carrying the Spanish army with its artillery and baggage....
The Armada set sail from Lisbon on 28th May
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