Yeah, according to www.portchicagomutiny.com the ship was loaded with "well over 4000 tons of munitions, almost 2000 tons of which were high explosives".
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Yeah, according to www.portchicagomutiny.com the ship was loaded with "well over 4000 tons of munitions, almost 2000 tons of which were high explosives".
Duque de Alba: Thasnks for the info
BTW as a duthie I really like your name although in Holland we incorrectly spell it as Alva.
BTW as a duthie I really like your name although in Holland we incorrectly spell it as Alva.
According to the Guiness book of records, the largest explosion was just after WWII, when the Brits went to the German island of Helgoland (?) on the North Sea and blew up some Uboot bunkers there in one gigantic detonation.
BTW..De Alba...Its a real shame that somebody from Spain like you would call the Armada.."invencible"...that, everybody knows, was a shamesly English propaganda bit to make fun of it in the aftermath...Spain never called it so, if anything, it was called "Felicisima" (The happy one) but never invencible. <sigh>..lo que hay que oir...
BTW..De Alba...Its a real shame that somebody from Spain like you would call the Armada.."invencible"...that, everybody knows, was a shamesly English propaganda bit to make fun of it in the aftermath...Spain never called it so, if anything, it was called "Felicisima" (The happy one) but never invencible. <sigh>..lo que hay que oir...
it was called "Felicisima"
Yes, tut mir leid, but WWW is an Anglosaxon world.
Here I learned, first time in my whole life, about the Peninsula War. If you ask your neighbor, he will say: What peninsula: Scandinavian, Italic, Helenic...?
If we say "Guerra de Independencia", people think about America 1777. If we speak like in the XIX century, "Guerra contra el francés", people will be more atonished.
The same with Guerras de Ultramar, Guerra de Flandes, etc...
Leider nicht, there is not a standard ISO 9000 for the names of the world wide wars.
Yes, tut mir leid, but WWW is an Anglosaxon world.
Here I learned, first time in my whole life, about the Peninsula War. If you ask your neighbor, he will say: What peninsula: Scandinavian, Italic, Helenic...?
If we say "Guerra de Independencia", people think about America 1777. If we speak like in the XIX century, "Guerra contra el francés", people will be more atonished.
The same with Guerras de Ultramar, Guerra de Flandes, etc...
Leider nicht, there is not a standard ISO 9000 for the names of the world wide wars.
Duque...
I don't really know what you are talking about...I take it for (kind off) obvious, that if you are somehow interested in history beyond your school book and beyond your neighbourhood library that you come in touch with the more broad world of history, being it German, being it Anglosaxon, written in books or even better through the web. I, living in Spain, soon found enough and easy ways to obtain the info I wanted...and I'm quite sure you did too, no? So, since that is clear, and I take that most of the serious history buffs in Spain do the same, there is no excuse to fall into just plain historic "errors"...Ask around and you will see more that enoughpeople who know that the Armada of 1588 was never called "Invencible" by Spain...You don't need to patronize anybody by "having to go down to their level"..."Wars of indepenence" have been many, so its fairly common to add a little explanation...I'm sure a Croatian wont automatically see there 1776. Give people a chance, ok socio?
Sehr shoen das du auch Deutsch schreibst...warum aber als antwort zu mir?..<tsk>
I don't really know what you are talking about...I take it for (kind off) obvious, that if you are somehow interested in history beyond your school book and beyond your neighbourhood library that you come in touch with the more broad world of history, being it German, being it Anglosaxon, written in books or even better through the web. I, living in Spain, soon found enough and easy ways to obtain the info I wanted...and I'm quite sure you did too, no? So, since that is clear, and I take that most of the serious history buffs in Spain do the same, there is no excuse to fall into just plain historic "errors"...Ask around and you will see more that enoughpeople who know that the Armada of 1588 was never called "Invencible" by Spain...You don't need to patronize anybody by "having to go down to their level"..."Wars of indepenence" have been many, so its fairly common to add a little explanation...I'm sure a Croatian wont automatically see there 1776. Give people a chance, ok socio?
Sehr shoen das du auch Deutsch schreibst...warum aber als antwort zu mir?..<tsk>