Key term for OCR GCSE History B, used in Catholics.
Old ships packed with tar and gunpowder, set alight and steered into an enemy fleet to break their formation and cause panic.
Fireships appears in OCR GCSE History B revision content for The Elizabethans (1580–1603), especially Catholics and Mary Queen of Scots and Spain.
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