History of the United States I / Unit 2 USH1 0168 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Armada and St Bartholomew's Day
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The idea
Philip the Second sent over thirty thousand men and one hundred thirty ships against England in fifteen eighty-eight. A storm and English sea power destroyed it.
In practice
French Catholic troops killing unarmed Protestants in fifteen seventy-two, in violence that claimed nine thousand lives.
Where people slip
Religious intolerance characterised the age, and state religions could enforce belief.
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