This program covers the history of naval battles, from the Battle of Salamis, in 480 B.C., in which the Greeks in their triremes outwitted the Persians; to the Battle of Lepanto, notable because it marked the first sinking of a naval vessel by gunfire; to the British defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. (24 minutes)

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