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Saturday, April 08, 2006

Spanish Armada guns

Anyone who would like to wargame the Spanish Armada should be aware of I. A. A. Thompson's articles on the subject. There is one published in the 1975 Mariner's Mirror, page 355 in the bound volume (Mariner's Mirror, Vol.61, No.4, November 1975) title "Spanish Armada Guns". He also has a more recent paper, a chapter entitled "Spanish Armada Gun Procurement and Policy" in P. Gallagher & D. W. Cruickschank, God's Obvious Design: Papers for the Spanish Armada Symposium, Sligo, 1988. These are the most accessible sources (if you can call them that) of Dr. Thompson's research results on the subject. There may be more, as he had a PhD thesis on the subject and may have published more, in recent years. I was not able to find anything with Google, however. There is also Michael Lewis's book Armada Guns (1961), but it is only good for the English guns, as Dr. Thompson has effectively demolished Lewis's theory about Spanish guns. Still, the book is a good read.

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