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The English did defeat the Spanish Armada. First, Sir Francis Drake sailed into a Spanish harbor and burned many Spanish ships. Secondly, there was a hurricane that blew many Spanish ships off course. Thirdly, the English ships were smaller and they were able to move around the Spanish ships and use their guns effectively.
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∙ 10y agoNo. Some ships were defeated by the English fleet, and many more were sunk on the rocky coasts of Scotland and Ireland.
After smaller battles near Eddystone and the Isle of Portland, the Spanish ships were chased from the Isle of Wight and pursued to Calais. There the English sent eight fireships at night into the anchorages, prompting many Spaniards to cut their anchor ropes and flee. After a serious defeat at Gravelines, the remainder of the Armada fled northward along the east coast of England, some running into rocks off Scotland. While crossing the north Irish coast to circle back to Spain, the worn ships were caught in gales, and many were wrecked, some because their anchors were lost at Calais. Only 67 of the fleet's 130 ships made it back to Spain, and more than 5000 men were lost.
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∙ 8y agoThe Spanish Armada was defeated by England in August 1588.
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∙ 8y agoThe Spanish Armada was defeated by the English. Queen Elizabeth I was the ruler at that time. The bad weather helped the English defeat the Spanish.
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∙ 12y agoAll answers are correct.
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∙ 11y agoThe british defeated the Spanish armada.
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What is the name of the battle between the English navy and the Spanish Armada?
The Spanish Armada
Use the word armada in a sentence?
The English navy defeated the Spanish armada.
The portuguese armada was defeated in 1588 by stormy weather and the english navy?
You mean that the Spanish Armada was defeated by the English Navy and bad weather. The English navy achieved a victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Gravelines and sever storms disrupted the Spanish fleet
Not true of Elizabethan England?
The Spanish Armada defeated the English navy.
Why was the defeat od the spanish armada important to north American colonization?
The Spanish Armada was when a huge navy of Spanish ships went over to England and got crushed: by mother nature mostly. It was devestating to the Spanish.
What great navy did England defeat?
spanish armada
Which event was the European balance of power greatly shifted by?
The defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English Navy in 1588.
What is the name of the battle between the English navy and the Spanish Armada?
The Spanish Armada
This was the name of the fleet defeated by the English navy in Elizabethan times?
The Spanish Armada.
Use the word armada in a sentence?
The English navy defeated the Spanish armada.
How did the spanish armada change European politics?
the defeat of the spanish armada by the british navy gave Britain superiority over the oceans, and therefore the world.
The portuguese armada was defeated in 1588 by stormy weather and the english navy?
You mean that the Spanish Armada was defeated by the English Navy and bad weather. The English navy achieved a victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Gravelines and sever storms disrupted the Spanish fleet
Not true of Elizabethan England?
The Spanish Armada defeated the English navy.
Why was the defeat od the spanish armada important to north American colonization?
The Spanish Armada was when a huge navy of Spanish ships went over to England and got crushed: by mother nature mostly. It was devestating to the Spanish.
Why was defeat so important to Spanish so important for England?
When the British defeated the Spanish Armada, they established themselves as the World's dominate navy.
What was the Spanish fleet defeated by the English?
It was Elizabeth I's Royal British Navy that defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588!
What type of natural occurrence was said to have helped the British navy defeat the mighty Spanish Armada in 1588?
A Protestant Wind
