Saturday, May 21, 2016

NOW THIS IS A GREAT MOVIE! Plus it's a SUPER history lesson. (Have your laptop out so you can check out all the characters on Wikipedia.) The English title of this 2015 movie is ADMIRAL but its original title was MICHIEL DE RUYTER, named after the famous Dutch naval commander. Now you might ask,"How can I relate to a bunch of sea battles from the NINE YEARS WAR? Well, the treaty that ended that war in 1697 gave King Louis XIV time and money to finance an expedition that established THE FIRST PERMANENT COLONY IN PRESENT-DAY ALABAMA and he sent ships from that war captained by a man who became a hero during that war: IBERVILLE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HYmOTB1AKA

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