THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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Henri
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James
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Sarah
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Only 193 of the estimated 643 people on board survived, and the soldiers’ chivalry gave rise to the unofficial “women and children first” protocol when abandoning ship, while the “Birkenhead drill” of Rudyard Kipling’s poem came to describe courage in the face of hopeless circumstances.
Detailed explanation-2: -Named from HMS Birkenhead, which struck a rock and sank in 1852.
Detailed explanation-3: -A French cavalry officer present at the battle stated that the Mary Rose had been sunk by French guns. A cannonball low in the hull would enable water to flood in, making the ship unstable and leading to her sinking.
Detailed explanation-4: -Or consequently the years of continual spraying, or perhaps trying to look through misted-up windows at what you could just about make out as a Tudor warship. We’ve changed a lot since then. The sprays were turned off in 2013 and we opened our new state-of-the-art Mary Rose Museum in 2016.