In 1588, the King of Spain Philip II mounted a gigantic operation to invade the Protestant England of Elizabeth I. 1 ships, 130 men, that’s an absolute threat to the English monarchy. Elizabeth I tasks her best-known captain, Francis Drake, with stopping him.
Between insane storms that scattered the Spanish fleet all over the Atlantic and the English Channel, plus the harassment of Drake's sailors, the Invincible Armada was a complete failure, humiliating for Spain.
It is true that since the Normans of Duke William, who landed and gave a memorable b… to the Saxons at Hastings (1066) and conquered England in the process, the English have been terrorized by the idea of a maritime invasion and no one will succeed anymore, neither the Invincible Armada, nor Napoleon, nor Hitler…
And so what the Invincible Armada could not do, three Spaniards (a Southerner, a Madrilenian and a Catalan, an astonishing united attacking front) achieved in a single day at Silverstone, taking the three victories in the three displacements of MotoGP.
It must be said that the English army, as in all its wars, was very outnumbered and was very discreet. Admiral Crutchlow was unable to do anything against the Iberian missiles, soldiers Dixon, Smith, Lowes, Booth-Amos were absolutely discreet, even thrown to the ground... As for the others, they are rather patchworks , Miller and Gardner are “ Ozzies ", or " Aussies », aka Australians. Finally McPhee, it is on his helmet, is Scottish and the Celtic part of me personally absolutely refuses English assimilation based on massacres by red collar workers.
In short, England was invaded, beaten, conquered but extraordinary, the English public applauded and screamed in all directions, because this Spanish invasion was accompanied by furious fighting.
The Romans must have left to the "Bretons", their name during Caesar's Invasion (a bit of a failure, the Angliches of the time were effective) a little of their fascination for the arenas...
I'm thinking at the moment of greyhound racing, a very English thing which sees millions spent in bets. Always random, like all bets on animal races, whether greyhounds, horses, camels, snails, the frenzied punters that are the English must have lost big at Silverstone. Because the favorites who had the maximum odds were all beaten. On the other hand, the guy who found the Rins–Fernández–Ramírez combination is a genius, if he exists.
Congratulations man…
By the way, the victory record of this English legend that is Hailwood (76 all engines combined) was not beaten at Silverstone (Márquez finished second) which would have been an incredible symbol. So Spain certainly avenged the Invincible Armada but the English legend was not flouted at home... It will come, Hailwood's record will fall, but not in England..." Honor is safe ", honor is safe!
