MY BRITISH HISTORY Flashcards
Battle of Trafalgar
he Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815).[3]
Henry VI
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death in 1547.
-Six wives
Annulment of first marriage led to English Reformation
Father of the Royal Navy. Invested heavily. 50 ships
Catherine of Aragon
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Pope Clement VII
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Who wrote the Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Some modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss.[1] Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it is often considered a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature.[2]
What is the Rime of the Ancient Mariner about?
The mariner’s tale begins with his ship departing on its journey. Despite initial good fortune, the ship is driven south by a storm and eventually reaches the icy waters of the Antarctic. An albatross appears and leads the ship out of the ice jam where it is stuck, but even as the albatross is fed and praised by the ship’s crew, the mariner shoots the bird:
Trafalgar Square
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Sir John Hawkins
Sir John Hawkins (also spelled Hawkyns) (1532 – 12 November 1595) was a pioneering English naval commander and administrator. He was also a privateer and an early promoter of English involvement in the Atlantic slave trade.
Defeat of the Spanish armada
In 1588, King Philip II of Spain sent an armada (a fleet of ships) to collect his army from the Netherlands, where they were fighting, and take them to invade England. … However, an important reason why the English were able to defeat the Armada was that the wind blew the Spanish ships northwards.
Barbary pirates
The Barbary pirates were mostly Berbers, Arabs, and other Muslims, but some came from Christian Europe. The pirates used small, fast-moving vessels to capture trading ships and their cargoes. They held the crews and passengers for ransom or sold them as slaves. Each
The groans of the Britons
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The Groans of the Britons (Latin: gemitus Britannorum) is the final appeal made between 446 and 454 by the Britons to the Roman military for assistance against Pict and Scot raiders.
The fire of tara
One legend tells of Saint Patrick lighting the Easter bonfire on the hill of Slane – on the night when it was forbidden to kindle any other fire in Ireland before the high king’s own fire blazed from the royal ramparts of Tara.
Iona
The monastery was founded in 563 by the monk Columba, also known as Colm Cille, who sailed here from Ireland to live the monastic life. Much later legends (a thousand years later, and without any good evidence) said that he had been exiled from his native Ireland as a result of his involvement in the Battle of Cul Dreimhne.[35] Columba and twelve companions went into exile on Iona and founded a monastery there. The monastery was hugely successful, and may have played a role in conbertobg the Picts of present-day Scotland in the late 6th century, and was certainly central to the conversion of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria in 635.
