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Unleashtheducks t1_ja8jr6s wrote

Reply to comment by Perpetual_Doubt in TIL a year after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the English sent their own Armada to Spain, leading to similar losses of ships and men, and an ignominious English defeat by malektewaus

So it was the English version of what the US did in the War of 1812, “We defeated the world’s greatest superpower, we must be a superpower now. Or not.”

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TreesACrowd t1_ja9u9n8 wrote

How so? The U.S. didn't suffer a crushing defeat in the War of 1812. It essentially ended in a draw.

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