So, we have 1274 - 900 ships, 40 000. 1281 - 4400 ships, 142,000 people (Mongols, forget about it.)

The traditional version: October 3, 1274 some of the Mongols off the Korean port of Ma San conquer Japan. Invasion fleet consisted of 900 vessels with forty thousand people on board. October 19 paratroopers landed at Hakata Bay, the island of Kyushu. As it turned out there is not very clear, but, somehow, the Mongols had to wrap up the shafts. However, Mongolian boss, someone killed Khan (aka Kublai, he's Kublai, seventeens playground the devil will decide), was a peasant Assertive, and in 1281 appeared again in Hakata Bay, this time at the head of the fleet of ships already in 4400, with one hundred seventeens playground and forty-two thousands of people and Marines team. There would be freedom-loving and barn to the Japanese people, but the emperor went to the church, agreed with their Shinto gods, and aliens covered in this typhoon that about any invasion was out of the question. In memory of the Japanese stuck in a dictionary word (or, rather, the whole ideological block) Kamikaze

- Wind Gods. In October 1944, the first he firmly auknulos Americans when Japanese pilots began to come in shoals suicide attacks on ships of the 5th U.S. Navy.
So, we have 1274 - 900 ships, 40 000. 1281 - 4400 ships, 142,000 people (Mongols, forget about it.) For comparison: In 1571, Don John of Austria (?) Led to a powerful Muslim Christian fleet 6 galleasses (large rowing sailing vessel) and 203 galleys. The number of troops - 80 000 (which is doubtful!), Plus Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. seventeens playground In 1588, Philip II sent a sea of the Great Armada to conquer England. And how many of them are there, Spaniards, in the Great (not that anyhow!) Armada? Much as 130 ships: 73 military, 25 and 32 light-duty vehicles, as we would say today, patrol, escort. The number of crews and marines - 30 693. Thus, it appears that the Mongols XIII century showed itself many times over by trained sailors than the "enlightened Europeans" XVI century. After all, if it were not for the typhoon, their company would surely crowned with success! A typhoon is out, typhoon - is force majeure, not argue with him. As he sank junks five hundred years ago, and now drowning, and not just junks and ocean freighters, large car ferries and destroyers. I'm not racist, I'm a sailor. At least on education. Therefore, the creation of "Mongol" military transport fleet to 900 and even more so in 4400 ships and vessels, and performs more complex amphibious operations to land one hundred thousandth army was considered impossible. First - some of what purely empirical considerations. I have, as has been aforementioned, a little walking on the water and on the oars and sail. So, I declare with aplomb maremana: mediocre sailor sailing rowing fleet can be prepared in six months, seventeens

playground provided that it is all the time moryachit. Except that it is impracticable: the vessel, however small, needs, saying today's language, maintenance. And to do it, except for the sailor, assigned to that particular vessel, no one. Thus, the required period of education is automatically increased seventeens playground at least twice. Next. To master - and proper master, the art of navigation, you need at least four years, and as a result we do not get naval commander seventeens playground and navigator lieutenant seventeens playground to the admiral who is growing and growing. This - nuance, which many burned, seventeens playground including a Napoleon Buonoparte, who believed that navigation is the same as driving forces for the mother earth. And so in order to create an efficient navy - that fleet, not a bunch of ships, requires ten to twenty years, and this is again a minimum. The more fleet capable to perform a landing operation, the most difficult task, which can only occur before the naval forces. I remind level Lepanto and Gravelines Christian fleet reached only in the XVI century, when the usage has become part of the compass, the quadrant and the telescope. And then steppe eagles, recently were not even aware that the world of the sea, there are not yet finished seventeens playground with the freedom-China showdown with confidence to the attack they really unknown country with enormous, even by today's standards, the fleet.

That is, the day before the guys were sitting round the fire, pulled plaintive prairie songs, dragged dirty fingers of sooty boiler undercooked horse meat, and now has albatross soar over the waves, Sea of Japan, and such a cool hover that the French Emperor seventeens playground

Napoleon left them only envy. And Gross Admiral Raeder left them only envy. Failed, poor fellow, seventeens playground to reach the level of Khan killed, and after the Pas de Calais, to put it mildly, a little narrower than the Korea Strait. But with the Mongols, which is typical, always. Judging from the canonical version of history, no people, either before or after did not have such an amazing ability to express learning. Almost from the steppes (or rather, semi-) selected, ranchers and possess the