So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
why don't we learn from history?
Why do great enterprises fail? Two reasons: Arrogance and Ignorance
WWI - planned for decades - for a single track
Hitler's Stalingrad
Cannae
and, most certainly, the Spanish Armada
Unenlightened Shadows Cast
The kingdom of Philip the Second of Spain covered a larger land mass than any governed body in history. But it was incomplete. Pope Sixtus, outraged at the Protestant movement, wanted the likes of Germany, Netherlands and England back in the Catholic fold. He demanded an "English Enterprise" that would take the whole of the British Isles back into the arms of the church, From there, the rest of Europe.
Chapters
Second Thoughts - Cristobal can't turn back
Second Thoughts - The Duke begs the king to think again
Dreams of a big life
The English Enterprise - Strategic Decisions - The king's reply
Strategic Advantage
Cristobal the sailor
Maria and the village - two men's work - Rita
Philip
Mary Queen of Scots: Knight's Pawn
Drake's First Strike
Boats against the current
Disease home and away
Corruna
First action
Fire ships
Speech at Tilbury
The long way around
The Irish coast -
Holding on
Maria