Spanish Armada

Elizabeth I motivated the troops during the Spanish Armada by giving an inspiring speech at Tilbury where she declared that she had "the heart and stomach of a king" and would lead her soldiers in battle. She emphasized the importance of their duty in defending their country against a Catholic invasion and promised to reward their loyalty and bravery. Her speech instilled a sense of patriotism and determination among the troops, boosting their morale and determination to fight.

The Girona was wrecked at Dunluce, Co. Antrim. Seventeen other sites have been identified along the rugged western coast.

The ships in the Spanish Armada sailed in a half moon shape in order to form a defensive formation. This allowed them to protect the more vulnerable ships in the center of the formation and prevent the enemy from breaking through the lines. It also enabled the Spanish to use their superior firepower from the broadsides of their ships.

In 1584 Sir Walter Ralegh and his investors sent two barks under the command of Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe - members of Ralegh's household - to discover a suitable place for establishing a military bastion in the New World.

During the Pre- Modern Era (1450-1700), Spain, along with Portugal, started to explore the world. In 1492, Christopher Columbus was supported by Isabella of Castile to explore the west side in order to search for the spice world of India and Asia even though many Europeans traveled along eastward. After, the Spanish and Portuguese found the New World. The Spanish conquistadors were able to conquer with their explorers like Francisco Pizarro and Hernan Cortes to conquest Latin and South America such as the Aztecs and the Incas. They obtained lots of gold and silver which caused inflation in their homelands. The Spanish set up sugar and other cash crop plantations and started the transatlantic slave trade. They impacted other European nations like England and France to colonize for profits as well.

Spain had absolute monarchy but was controlled by the Holy Roman Empire (Charles V) around mid-1500s. Their government was strongly tied to the church unlike most of the Protestant nations. Many talented Muslims and Jews left the country. Spain became fragile as time passed since other stronger nations began to colonize their land.

She did more than allow she ordered. She was at war with the Spanish and what better way to cripple them than to sink ships and take the gold. Her treasury got bigger from their gold and she didn't waste man power attacking them.

The war as depicted in the movie, Elzabeth the Golden Age was not entirely accurate. Elizabeth did not ride into battle with her troops. She addressed them eloquently before battle with the Spanish, but would never have been placed directly on the battle lines. Also, in the movie Sir Walter Raleigh lead England into battle with the Spanish Armada. In reality, Raleigh had no role in this famous event.

To find as many soldiers and fight England but England's focus was on the skills of the soldiers not as many as they could find and that's how we defeated them.

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The Spanish Armada was a failure and as such did not cause any real change in England. Not one ship landed on the shores of Britain. For the Spanish it left them with a depleted navy. Some ships were wrecked along the coast of Ireland whilst the fleet tried to round the British Isles on the way back to Spain. Some of these Spaniards settled in Ireland and their decedents are known as the black Irish.

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.

The artist Nicholas Hilliard painted many miniature portraits of Queen Elizabeth I. Many of the portraits of her are by unknown artists. See the link.

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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.

Queen Elizabeth I.

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.