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From: "Vern Humphrey" 
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To: snorer418{at}aol.com [mailto:snorer418{at}aol.com]
> >
>
> it is believed by some that had santa cruz been in command, he would have
> used the winds that allowed him to sail to keep the english fleet
> blockaded
> in port where they would have been vulnerable to fire ships.
> alas, the stuff
> of what iffs, as sean has already stated.
>
In the end, the REAL failure of the enterprise was the Spanish insistance
on birth as a qualifier to rank.  The incompetent Medina-Sidona was the
only man with high enough birth to ensure the others would follow him.

To his credit, he KNEW he was incompetent, and told the King so -- but the
King insisted.


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