they didn't! the armada did not attack the actual country
The Spanish Armada was first sighted by the English off the coast of Cornwall.
The Spanish Armada was in 1588 and 1st English settlement, Jamestown VA was in 1607
King Philip choose Medina Sidonia to lead the Spanish Armada as he was someone he could trust. But he hadn't been choose first, Philips first choice to lead the Armada was Santa Cruz but he died.
The Armada portrait of Elizabeth the First by George Gower, dated ?1588, oil on oak, at Woburn Abbey. The Spanish Armada off the English Coast by Cornelius Caesz van Weiringen 1620-1625 The defeat of the Spanish Armada by Phillipe Jaques de Loutherboug 1796
The English say the date that they left but the Spanish say the date of the first attack.
The Spanish Armada failed to invade Britain during the reign of Queen Elizabeth the First.
She didn't
The Spanish Armada was first sighted by the English off the coast of Cornwall.
The monarch at the time of the Armada was queen Elizabeth the first.
Elizabeth the first
Queen Elizabeth the First of England.
1492
The Spanish Armada was in 1588 and 1st English settlement, Jamestown VA was in 1607
King Philip choose Medina Sidonia to lead the Spanish Armada as he was someone he could trust. But he hadn't been choose first, Philips first choice to lead the Armada was Santa Cruz but he died.
The Armada portrait of Elizabeth the First by George Gower, dated ?1588, oil on oak, at Woburn Abbey. The Spanish Armada off the English Coast by Cornelius Caesz van Weiringen 1620-1625 The defeat of the Spanish Armada by Phillipe Jaques de Loutherboug 1796
The English say the date that they left but the Spanish say the date of the first attack.
The exact length of the Spanish armada is unknown but I have read that is took several weeks to complete this monstrous task.