spanish armada
The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from La Coruña in August 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England
The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 has long been held as one of England's greatest military achievements, and a sign of the strength and spirit imparted to the country by the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. However, some more recent historians claim that the English victory was no more than a lucky accident.
By May 1588, however, the Armada was finally ready to sail. The fleet numbered over 130 ships, making it by far the greatest naval fleet of its age. According to Spanish records, 30,493 men sailed with the Armada, the vast majority of them soldiers. Spanish Armada - Tudor Place
The enterprise had received another set back when Francis Drake and his men had sailed to the coast of Spain and destroyed many of the Spanish ships at Cadiz. Queen Elizabeth had heard mutterings of the intended invasion of England by Spain for some time. She was not, however, at first concerned about the rumours.
The Spanish monarch, Philip II, was angry that Queen Elizabeth had not punished Sir Francis Drake and other English seadogs for plundering Spanish ships. Philip was a devout Catholic. He felt it was his duty to invade and conquer England in order to convert the country back to the Church of Rome.
Worst of all, England was a Protestant nation. When Elizabeth I executed the Catholic Mary Queen of Scots in 1587, Philip decided to invade England. Philip's plan was that an armada of 130 ships would sail to the Netherlands, to pick up more of the Spanish army and invade England.
only five ship could stay together
and the armada is gone
ts hopes of invasion crushed, the remnants of the Spanish Armada began a long and difficult journey back to Spain. In the late 1580s, English raids against Spanish commerce and Queen Elizabeth I's support of the Dutch rebels in the Spanish Netherlands led King Philip II of Spain to plan the conquest of England.
outbreak. The Anglo-Spanish War broke out in 1585, following the seizure of English merchant ships in Spanish harbors. ... In August, England joined the Eighty Years' War on the side of the Dutch Protestant United Provinces, who had declared their independence from Spain.
he Spanish Armada (Spanish: Grande y Felicísima Armada, literally "Great and Most Fortunate Navy") was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from La Coruña in August 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England.
philip's plan was to: gather a huge Armada of 130 ships in Spain, under the Duke of Medina Sidonia. sail to the Netherlands to pick up the Spanish army, led by the Duke of Parma. invade England.
the ship was hard to take down
sip was hard to sail because of how big they was
in the morning it was no more
the armada was scatered across the sea
in 1978 spain was seting up a war ship
the ship in battle on the lower deck was loud like a park full of kids
A giant Spanish invasion fleet was completed by 1587, but Sir Francis Drake's daring raid on the port of Cadiz delayed the Armada's departure until May 1588. The Invincible Armada consisted of 130 ships and carried 2,500 guns and 30,000 men, two-thirds of them soldiers.
they almost died and got defeated bc the burning ship