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Message: <blockquote data-quote="herald" data-source="post: 492185" data-attributes="member: 1112">The story behind the Spanish Armada is one that is overblown and over played. Many of the ships that set sail for England during that fateful attack were in bad shape and poorly designed. Divers have been out to a few of those wreck and studied thier construction as best as they could. Some were lucky thay made it as far as they did. The Hurricane that took hit them swamped most of them out.The Spanish also had a bad understanding of how fire arms worked in a naval situation. The didn't understand the idea of arch, (ironic since it is the sample priciple used in archery) and often just fired over the decks of thier enemies. The English had an easier time making a transition to firearms. Incedentally the English government had a monopoly on making gunpowder. This might explain how it controled the cost of it.</blockquote>