You all know the story. In 1588, Philip the Great of Spain sent this Armada to crush the English, abolishing forever the brief Brittanic heresy and put Mary of the Scots to the throne of England, thus creating Great Britain as we know it. What would have happened to the British Isles had it failed, due to bad weather for example? Would Brittanism have spread to Ireland and Scottland and overseas? Or was it doomed to be destroyed by the French or the Austrians? What are your thoughts?