<Li> Known as the Siege of Orléans . </Li> <Li> Excerpt: "the struggle by which the unconscious heroine of France, in the beginning of the fifteenth century, rescued her country from becoming a second Ireland under the yoke of the triumphant English ." </Li> <Li> Defeat of the Spanish Armada, AD 1588 <Ul> <Li> Excerpt: "The England of our own days is so strong, and the Spain of our own days is so feeble, that it is not easy, without some reflection and care, to comprehend the full extent of the peril which England then ran from the power and the ambition of Spain, or to appreciate the importance of that crisis in the history of the world ." </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Ul> <Li> Excerpt: "The England of our own days is so strong, and the Spain of our own days is so feeble, that it is not easy, without some reflection and care, to comprehend the full extent of the peril which England then ran from the power and the ambition of Spain, or to appreciate the importance of that crisis in the history of the world ." </Li> </Ul>

What happened in 1588 that changed the course of history forever