Re: Lack Of Trees In Irish And British Countrysides

"jl" <jl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message news:4f9d4b91aajl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <6r2b24trhss2a4tncab7l69uf8phhum9eq@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>   Someone else <republican_remove_spam_@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> >As far as I'm aware Britain got most of it's marine supplies from the
>> >Baltic countries
>
>> What? There were substantial Oak forests in Latvia?
>
> There are more countries around the Baltic than just Latvia.
>
>> For the ****ps that fought the Spanish Armada?
>
> For the British fleet - when it was still  built out of wood - certainly
> until about 1860. I wouldn't get to hung up about the Spanish Armada -
the
> british fleet was quite small in those days, as were the ****ps.

A 'British' fleet at the time of the Armada?

Allan