Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Challenges at Home and Abroad.
Unmanned vessels packed with pitch and gunpowder that were set alight and steered into enemy fleets to cause panic and scatter formations.
Fire ships appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Early Elizabethan England, especially Challenges at Home and Abroad and The Armada.
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