New name for 'Heavy Wea

[Mark Harris]

Lyonel said:
> "Armored combat" is what Patton and Rommel did in North Africa or
> what the Monitor and the Virginia did in the Civil War.

Damaris then asked: 
>I thought it was the Merimac and the Monitor.

The Merimac was built from the remains of a wooden ship's hull that had been 
burned to the waterline. I believe that ship was the Virgina which after
being
rebuilt as an armored ship was re-christened the Merimac (Though I think 
we have the spelling wrong).

Stefan li Rous