To: blam
"but sank inexplicably in 1545 during a skirmish with French ships"
"skirmish" - I believe this was the last time the French tried to fight something resembling a war....:o
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08/19/2003 3:29:30 PM PDT by
BossLady
To: BossLady
"skirmish" - I believe this was the last time the French tried to fight something resembling a war....:o"
No, Sometime in the late 1700's French troops landed on the Welsh coast and marched their invasion force toward a town. There was some kind of festival going on with women all wearing red dresses and stove pipe hats, which the Frogs took to be British Regulars and promptly surrendered to the ladies.
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