Thanx Walrus,

I confess I was only waffling realy about Henry from snippets i'd picked up over the years on the popular history grapevine....its not realy my subject I just thought it might be of topical interest as we seem about to go another turkey shoot in Iraq..but he was apparently the British monarch credited with creating a formal naval force and his requirements led to the procurement of more easily manufactured weapons of mass destruction....ie iron cannon balls etc....