немного офтоп - интересно история повторилась через 300 с небольшим лет, причем второй раз, по-видимому, в меньшем масштабе, если верить цифрам в 140 тыс. войск:
http://www.history.com/topics/weather-in-war Weather has had a strategic effect, as well as an operational and tactical impact. It played a decisive role in the Mongol invasion of Japan in 1281 when Kublai Khan attacked Kyushu with some forty-four hundred ships and 140,000 troops. Before the entire invading army landed, a typhoon struck the coast of Kyushu and destroyed half of the ships and men. Most of the Mongols remaining on Kyushu were slaughtered by the Japanese or drowned as they attempted to flee on the small vessels that escaped destruction. The Japanese viewed the typhoon as a "divine wind" (kamikaze) sent by the gods to save Japan and concluded that Japan was a "divinely protected land." Storms also greatly influenced the fate of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Weather affected the naval campaign early, for shortly after the Spanish fleet departed Lisbon in May 1588, a storm scattered the Armada; it took a month to reassemble the ships and to recondition them. Favorable winds carried the Armada through the English Channel, but skillful English fighting forced the ships to make their way into the North Sea. After the Spanish passed by the northern coast of Scotland and entered the Atlantic, thirty-five to forty ships foundered in heavy storms, and another twenty smashed against the rocky shore. The victors inscribed on one of their victory medals Flavit Deus, et dissipati sunt (God blew and they were scattered).
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