RE: OU/NAC- Hawaii? Re: Achmaenid Persian Empire

Of course, there's always the Spanish Armada.  If I remember right, the
Brits destroyed some Spanish stores including a large number of seasoned
barrels.  Not wanting to delay the invasion the Spanish use green wood
for
their barrels.	Consequently, a large number of Spanish get food
sickness
which contributes to their defeat and destruction when they get hit by
the
storm trying to escape.

I can't remember where I heard this and a Internet search didn't find
it.  I
could swear it was James Burke's Connections, but I'm not sure.

Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Burger [mailto:burger00@camosun.bc.ca]
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 1:40 AM
> To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject: Re: OU/NAC- Hawaii? Re: Achmaenid Persian Empire
> 
> 
> On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Alan E & Carmel J Brain wrote:
>  
> > So far I've seen nothing (with the _possible_ exception of the USA
> > implosion) in the Tuffleyverse nearly as unlikely as what I've
> > experienced in my own lifetime so far. 
> 
> No kidding. The unhappy fact is that history makes poor fiction...My
> favorite two examples:
> 
> 1. The original Kamikaze, the 'Divine Wind', a storm that conveniently
> wrecks the entire Mongol invading fleet, thus preventing a massive
> invasion and ground war in Japan. Throw this into a fictional 
> history, and
> people are going to accuse you of just copping out - no final 
> cataclysmic
> battles, no incredible feats of arms, nada.
> 
> 2. The collapse of the USSR/Eastern Bloc. Imagine this as 
> fiction: "We've
> got this big huge quasi-empire. Controls a significant 
> percentage of the
> globe through various means direct and indirect, has a big 
> military, is
> seen as a Real Threat. Then it seems to suddenly come apart, so that
> within a single decade all it's component bits have gone 
> their own way,
> and a number of those component bits have further devolved into even
> smaller bits." Lousy fiction, right? No clash of mighty armies,
> not even a lot of fighting inside this quasi-empire, except 
> in outlying
> and isolated regions. The critics would pan it...
> 
> (The collapse of the Eastern Bloc/USSR is more complex than 
> I've made it
> seem. Still, the point holds...)
> 
> I suppose we shouldn't come down on people who hide Americans in deep
> space or resurrect the Byzantine Empire...imagine what we'd 
> say to someone
> who invented a giant 'space storm' to wreck an opponent's 
> invading fleets!
> 
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