The defeat of The Spanish Armada in the English Channel, when the King of Spain sent the Armada to capture Queen Victoria I, For the Pope, whom had excommunicated her.The defeat of The Spanish Armada in the English Channel, marked the end of the control of the seas.
The English sea dogs had smaller faster ships than those belonging to the Spanish Armada. They were able to maneuver them into better positions. Also, the English guns could fire from a longer distance. The sea dogs were also close enough to home ports, they could go back and restock their gunpowder and cannonballs. The Spanish Armada and the crew were already suffering from bad storms and countless deaths from diseases.
francis drake
The English fleet, under Drake, destroyed the Spanish Armada, with a lot of help from our typically British stormy weather in the English Channel and the North Sea. It was this stormy weather that scattered the Spanish fleet, and forced them to take the long way round the top of Scotland, before they could head south with many Spanish ships floundering or being blown onto the rocks.
The sea dogs wee a group of English sea captains in the second half of the 1500s. They helped England defeat the Spanish Armada in 1588, plundered Spanish ships, and made important voyages of exploration.The following explorers were sea dogs:-John Hawkins-Sir Francis Drake-Martin Frobisher-Sir Walter Raleigh-Thomas Cavendishand others
Faster ships
The weather did the job on the ships. A storm came up pushing the ships out to sea and crashing them on rocks off the coast of Scotland.
The defeat of The Spanish Armada in the English Channel, when the King of Spain sent the Armada to capture Queen Victoria I, For the Pope, whom had excommunicated her.The defeat of The Spanish Armada in the English Channel, marked the end of the control of the seas.
Sea Dogs
The English sea dogs had smaller faster ships than those belonging to the Spanish Armada. They were able to maneuver them into better positions. Also, the English guns could fire from a longer distance. The sea dogs were also close enough to home ports, they could go back and restock their gunpowder and cannonballs. The Spanish Armada and the crew were already suffering from bad storms and countless deaths from diseases.
Sea Dogs
spanish armada or spanish flotilla
Sea dogs
John Hawkins led the [piratical] "Sea Dogs" who preyed upon Spanish shipping with the blessings of the English .
The defeat of the Spanish Armada.
sea dogs
John Hawkins led the [piratical] "Sea Dogs" who preyed upon Spanish shipping with the blessings of the English .