Spanish Armada

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The weather was a part of luck. It destroyed a lot of the spanish ships around the Scottish border that they were forced to go around because of the strong winds, and because they had cut their anchors in panic from the fire boats English sent at them.

Its main purpose was to help the Spanish armies on the continent cross over to the English shore. Philip II of Spain wanted to defeat Queen Elizabeth I so that the Protestant country would be open to the Catholic control.

He was her first cousin once removed, I think because it's very complicated.

Three sisters born to Isabella of Castille and Ferdinand of Aragon are involved.

Juana was Philips' father's mother. Maria was Philips mother's mother. Catherine was Mary's mother.

Things get even worse with his fourth marriage, please don't ask about that ;).

The large Spanish galleons were meant to carry heavy cargo, and even with added sails they were much slower than the ships pursuing them.

The Spanish Armada that sailed againts England in 1588 consisted of:

24 Galleons

4 Galleys

4 Galleasses

85 Armed merchant vessels (mostly Carracks)

34 Light Vessels (mostly Pinace type craft)

The English navy defeated the Spanish Armada because their ships were smaller and lighter than Spain's heavy galleons. The English's navy darted around the Armada firing cannon after cannon until the Spanish finnally gave up and headed home.

On their way home, however, a massive storm hit them and less than half of the fleet made it home alive.

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.

The spanish make a big mistake by sailing to close to the English army which was in Plymouth so had to sail away. Before the Spanish armada could turn back the English army was right on there tail right behind them and the wind was in the wrong direction to turn back so had to continue sailing ahead but the English army kept following them and wouldn't stop so the Spanish Armada couldn't pick up the Spanish army. They sailed and sailed up north until the English had stop chasing them and then the Spanish came across a very huge storm and half the Armada survived and the other half died. The remaning saillors of the Armada sailed back home to Spain.

um that's not right they did try and pick up the other soilders but they wern't ready also much less than half survived

Warships with cannon, and against the anchored Spanish fleet at Calais, fireships. The major differences were that the English had longer range cannon, and could reload three to four times faster than could the Spanish. The latter's technique was to grapple and board, the English to stand off and bombard into submission.

It was the spanish last attepmt at restoring England to Cathloicism...Queen Elizabeth wanted protestanitsm

The Spanish Armada made its disastrous foray against England in late July, 1588.

After being delayed by a 1587 attack on Cadiz by Sir Francis Drake, the armada finally sailed from Lisbon, Portugal on May 28, 1588. It did not reach the English Channel until July 19. The first attacks by the British fleet occurred on July 21 and 23, with two Spanish ships colliding and being abandoned. Unwilling to attack without being able to land its invasion force, the armada docked at Calais in France on July 27. On July 28, British forces made a fireship attack at night, scattering the enemy vessels, who then lost 5 warships in the Battle of Gravelines the following day. Harassed by the British, and unable to pick up the waiting army, the surviving ships looped around Scotland and Ireland to the west, encountering fierce gales that wrecked many more ships.

The Spanish Armada was when a huge navy of Spanishships went over to England and got crushed: by mother nature mostly. It was devestating to the Spanish.

all they really had were grappling hooks, and those could only be used if you were so close to their ships.

they also had cannons but they couldn't be used properly by the soldiers on board

Queen Elizabeth 1 was ruling in the Elizabethan era when the spanish attacked england

La Armada Espanola is the name for Spain's navy. It is an important part of Spain's strength in that it allows the country to defend itself at a distance from it's land mass. If you have to kill people and destroy things it is always more desirable to do so at a distance from your own country.

The Armada sailed in July 1588, The Anglo-Spanish war lasted until 1604

A fleet of 130 ships was sent to England in May 1588. The commander was Duke of Medina Sidonia. The fleet was delayed by a storm. Then, in the middle of July it was attacked by British long-range guns and it anchored off Calais. The formation was wrecked by English fireships. The battered fleet tried to escape but strong winds drove them into the North Sea, and they sailed back to spain travelling round Scotland and Ireland. Approximately half the original fleet (called Armada) arrived at a port in Spain.

Very few ships returned to Spain. Most of those that were not destroyed or captured in battle sailed on around Britain and many more were lost off the coast of Scotland in bad weather.

The survivors (about 67 out of about 151) reached Spain during the last three months of 1588, four to six months after they had sailed.

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