brilliant quote..
"It is well known that we fight in God's cause. So when we meet the English, God will surely arrange matters so that we can grapple and board them, either by sending some strange freak of weather, or more likely, just by depriving the English of their wits. ... But unless God helps us by making a miracle, the English, who have faster guns and handier ships than ours, and many more long-range guns, and who know their advantage as well as we do, will ... blow us to pieces with culverins, without our being able to do them any serious hurt. ... So, we are sailing against England in the confident hope of a miracle."
the thing is - this isn't cynicism or irony -- they really did confidently expect a miracle to happen...
the thing is - this isn't cynicism or irony -- they really did confidently expect a miracle to happen...