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marioquartz t1_ja8pp1d wrote

Reply to comment by HobgoblinKhanate1 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

>What makes you think the Irish potato famine might not been known about at all?

Im from Spain. Is not learned. Im only watch about it in Internet. And in very few times.

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Spank86 t1_ja95aik wrote

Probably because it's not massively relevant to the spanish. It's definitely taught in the uk and not as some sort of accident. When i was at school it was fairly bluntly explained that english landowners exported grain while the irish starved.

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HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_ja913nf wrote

Op was talking about British people though

I don’t remember learning about the second naval battle a year later. But most of everything else he said is bullshit

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