The Daily Mail (London, England), April 5th, 2008
Byline: Jeremy Hodges
AS the armada approached, panic gripped the nation and there was a runon the Bank of England. Only rapid transfer to its vaults of all the gold inthe Treasury prevented its collapse.
Not since the last armada, 120 years before, had invasion seemed so imminent.
The French ships with their crack troops and weapons to arm local insurgentshad broken out of Dunkirk and reached the Firth of Forth. As the five men ofwar and 30 fast privateer vessels dropped anchor, the streets of Edinburgh werebuzzing.
The city lay virtually undefended against the Jacobite armada and withi...
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