The Spanish Armada lost the Battle of Gravelines for a variety of reasons including bad luck. The reasons that they lost the battle were they had the wind against them, a brand new commander with no experience and also worse tactics than the English.
Their commander, the 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, had no qualifications to lead an armada. He alone could have lost this battle for the Spanish but they had even more things against them and these could be the worst of all. The thing that hurt the Spanish the most was their tactics and policy with their big guns or cannons. The Duke did not bring enough food with him for the journey. He also had poor maps. The Spanish only fired their cannons maybe two or three times a day and only when the the were right along side of an English ship; while the English shot theirs so much that they were constantly running out of ammunition. The Spanish didn't believe it necessary to teach their men how to load a cannon after it was fired.
The wind played a powerful part in this battle. It wreaked havoc on the large Spanish ships, while hardly affecting the smaller, more mobile English ships. Eventually, many of the Spanish ships wound up on the coast of Scotland, and Ireland, where people came down to the shores to kill the soldiers and burn the ships.
The Spanish had bad luck and poor weather. The Spanish were sighted off Lizard Point on the 29th of July really gave the English an advantage.
They failed as they were underpowered compared to the English ones which could shoot at the ships out of the spanish cannons range
becouse they saw the ships on fire and they didn't whant the set there own ships on fire
The weather was the main cause for the failure of the Spanish Armada, but if there had been no English ships the Armada could have just waited until the weather improved and then invaded England. It was a combination of weather, English ships and poor leadership that made the Armada fail.
no they had bad tactics aswell
The Spanish Armada had a great many soldiers in their Armada because their aim was the conquering of England. For years the Spanish King Philip II had been gathering men and resources and launched a massive invasion fleet against England. His aim to was to have the Armada meet up with another Spanish army in the Netherlands and the combined force would be too unbearable for the English to face. Spanish soldiers were the finest in the world at the time and all the hopes of the Armada and the invasion for Spanish interests rested on the soldiery of Spanish men. The more of these advanced soldiers Spain had the greater chance of achieving their goal.
They failed as they were underpowered compared to the English ones which could shoot at the ships out of the spanish cannons range
becouse they saw the ships on fire and they didn't whant the set there own ships on fire
The weather was the main cause for the failure of the Spanish Armada, but if there had been no English ships the Armada could have just waited until the weather improved and then invaded England. It was a combination of weather, English ships and poor leadership that made the Armada fail.
no they had bad tactics aswell
"Usted falla" in Spanish means "you fail" in English. It is the formal form of the second person singular in Spanish.
Yes, England ended up in a war with Spain during Shakespeare's lifetime. The Spanish sent a huge fleet, the Spanish Armada, to assist in ferrying a Spanish army to England, but bad weather and persistent attacks from the English caused it to fail. This was in 1588 when Shakespeare was 24.
because sir francis drake had a plan to set thier ships on fire by sending there ship on fire so they retreated out of 122 only 62 returned
The Spanish Armada had a great many soldiers in their Armada because their aim was the conquering of England. For years the Spanish King Philip II had been gathering men and resources and launched a massive invasion fleet against England. His aim to was to have the Armada meet up with another Spanish army in the Netherlands and the combined force would be too unbearable for the English to face. Spanish soldiers were the finest in the world at the time and all the hopes of the Armada and the invasion for Spanish interests rested on the soldiery of Spanish men. The more of these advanced soldiers Spain had the greater chance of achieving their goal.
The weather !! The English spilt up and some of the English ships went around the back of the ships and the Spanish were not ready for them to attach from behind. The weather was on the English side. The English over powered the Spanish and only 66 ships return to Spain
1. luck- when the armada were on their way back, the wind was wrong so they had to go all around Britain. they lost a lot of ships. 2. bad leadership- the proper leader died, and they found a new one, who was good onland, but suffered from sea sickness! 3. the English ships were more manoeuvrable, and faster. 4. the English had better cannons. they could fire every 10 mins, but the spanish ones took 1 hour.
"Fail" in English is fallire in Italian.
fresh, cool, recently-arrived 'estar/quedar fresco' = to fail, be disappointed 'quedarse fresco' =to act coolly,without scruple.