Spanish Armada

In 1588 he took out the entire spanish armada.

Intreasting fact: he took out the entire armada with 1 ship. How? He set it on fire with no one on board and drove it right into the ships setting fire to one spreading to another and so on.

The Armada suffered from poor planning, poor timing, and inadequate leadership. The smaller British fleet was able to scatter the armada and prevent its planned invasion. The disaster was completed by storms that wrecked many more ships.

The Spanish Armada was a fleet assembled and dispatched by King Philip II of Spain in attempt to invade England in 1588. His attempt was unsuccessful. Queen Elizabeth I of England held the defeat of the armada as one of her greatest achievements, assisting the decline of the Spanish Empire. The armada had a mission of both political and religious aims. King Philip, the leader of the Roman Catholic Spain, was not able to stop a revolt by his Protestant subjects in the Netherlands, a revolt which began in 1566 and was aided by Protestant England. By 1586, Phillip had decided that he could not defeat the Dutch until he had defeated England first. Long time religious rivalry between Spain and England was hoped to be resolved by King Philip in the dethroning of Queen Elizabeth, reconverting England to Catholicism.

The plan for conquering had begun. This plan consisted of the coordination of a fleet to sail from Spain and an army from the Netherlands to create a simultaneous invasion of England. His force of 130 ships and more than 30,000 men was led by Alonso Peréz Guzmán, duke of Medina-Sidonia. England became aware of the Spanish plans, attacking the armada at Cádiz, Spain in 1587, and succeeding in delaying it for a year. By July of 1588, the armada was spotted off the coast of England. On July 28, a bold night attack by forces under Sir Francis Drake disorganized the anchored armada, and several warships were sunk in a subsequent battle off Gravelines. The destruction of the fleet was continued by the North Sea weather, which wrecked ships on the coast of Scotland, and many more in gales off western Ireland. Some of the surviving crews died of hunger or disease en route back to Spain. In all, more than 60 of the original 130 ships were lost.

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She believed in independence for herself and her country.

Elizabeth the First was a devout Protestant, who sought to establish a firm base for the (then) new Church Of England. She discouraged Catholicism, and ordered many Catholic agitators to be executed, though stopped short of torturing and executing ordinary Catholic believers who kept their faith to themselves and made no trouble for the State.

In political terms, she was in favour of protecting England's economic and diplomatic interests at all costs, as well as maintaining Britain as the dominant European naval power and keeping Spanish military capability subdued. She saw Britain as a great force for enlightenment and civilization in the world, that could bring prosperity, happiness and progress to all peoples who accepted English supremacy and who agreed with its values. Sadly, this ideal was only sometimes borne out in practice.

At the Battle of Gravelines the English lost 50 to 100 dead and 400 wounded. Further to this over 8000 subsequently died from disease. The Spanish losses at the battle were over 600 dead, 800 wounded, 400 captured (5 ships were sunk) From storms and disease 51 ships were wrecked, 10 were scuttled and over 20,000 died

Over 3000

The superior English cannon allowed them to pick of the stragglers without having to come to close quarters where the Spanish fleet had the advantage. Deploying the fire ships broke up the Spanish formations, making them more vulnerable to the storm that destroyed them.

The Spanish Armada used huge, extremely powerful Galleon ships that they built with their gold from their South American Colonies. In contrast, the British fleet was comprised of small Frigates that moved faster but could not take as much damage.

They had smaller, faster ships that were a big advantage rather than Spain's ships.

The Spanish believed that their god was against them and dawned this weather apon the day of the battle and the spanish protest that's why they were defeated.

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the spanish had 120 and english had 55

They lost the Battle because of the English tactics. First they sent the spanish up the English channel until they settled in Calais. Then they sent 'Hellburners'(a boat filled with explosives which were set on fire) which spoiled the spanish plan to keep together. So the spanish captains panicked and fled but forgot to take their anchors out of the ground, so when they were in sea they couldn't stop.

Then there was a massive storm which meant the spanish got swept onto the rocks by irland and scottland where they either died or got killed by the people who lived there or the English army.

Only half of the spanish got back to Spain, and this was a great victory for Elizabeth's England.

Great if this helps someone cus it realy tics me off when people write stupid stuff on here xxx

i just want to know why coz its my history homework!!!!

To quote from the internet: 'Off the coast of Gravelines, France, Spain's so-called "Invincible Armada" is defeated by an English naval force under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake.' So, therefore, England was not defeated by the Spanish Armada. The Spanish Armada was routed by the English, and suffered badly from the notorious stormy British weather - many storms scattered the Spanish fleet, with many floundering on the rocky British coast.

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Because Philip of Spain was a Catholic and Elizabeth I was a protestant. Their religious views differed so much that they fought over everything. The Spanish Armada attempted the invasion of England in order to overthrow Elizabeth I and establish Philip and his daughter, the infanta Isabella as the rulers of England. The armada was repelled and sunk by the English navy led by Sir Francis Drake.

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The Battle of Gravelines was on 8 August 1588 and it ended Spanish domination of the Seas. Britain became the leading Naval force in the World.

The Spaniard Pope of Spain (Alexander VI) sent him over to voyage for new land.

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Partly.

Mary was brought up in France and spoke English with French accent. She was married three times, to the young King of France, to Lord Darnley (who was the father of James VI of Scotland and I of England and Scotland) and the Earl of Bothwell who, captured by pirates, went mad and died in Dragsholm Castle in Denmark.

Catholic countries like Spain were outraged by her execution, which certainly played a role in the long-planned (and ultimately disastrous) attack on England, the leading Protestant power of the time.

yes, it was.

Spain at the time of the defeat of the Spanish Armada was at the height of its empire and a true super power of the time. Philip IV was shocked at the outcome of what appeared to be a sure victory. The people of Spain were incensed at the money that had been spent with no return on the investment and the defeat marked the beginning of the decline of the Spanish Empire.