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The English launch a raid against the Spanish city of Cadiz. Instead of planning anything whatsoever, the English get drunk on the beach and die.
Correction: James VI/James I. Not James IV
Sources:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070311113513/http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/123/123%20292%201626.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20061003025931/http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/glossary/cadiz.htm
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/cadiz-expedition-1625-m.html
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/mono/10.4324/9781315257228-16/expedition-cadiz-1625-ronald-bedford-lloyd-davis
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