Queen Elizabeth the First
It was Elizabeth I's Royal British Navy that defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588!
The Spanish Armada.
The Spanish Armada was defeated by an English fleet commanded by Charles Howard the 1st Earl of Nottingham on August 8, 1588 in the Battle of Gravelines.
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
The English engaged the Spanish fleet on the 19th of July 1588
George Dewey
Spanish Armada
Admiral George Dewey.
Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada.
The Armada was defeated in 1588. The Fleet reached Gravelines off the Spanish Netherlands where they were defeated by an English Naval force. The Spanish withdrew and sailed north but were again disrupted by sever weather. 24 vessels were wrecked on the coasts if Ireland. Out of 130 ships that sailed from Spain, 50 failed to return
It was not so much that the English fleet destroyed the Armada. The Spanish ships were caught in gales off the coasts of Scotland and Ireland, which wrecked most of the them on the rocky coasts.