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Spanish Armada
Spanish Armada A large naval and military force that
PHILIP II of Spain sent to invade England at the end of May 1588. It consisted of 130 ships, carrying about 8000 sailors and 19,000 infantrymen, under the command of the inexperienced Duke of
MEDINA SIDONIA. The Spanish fleet was delayed by a storm off Corunna, and was first sighted by the English naval commanders on 19 July, then harassed by them with long-range guns, until it anchored off Calais. Unable to liaise with an additional force from the Low Countries led by
FARNESE, its formation was wrecked by English fireships during the night and as it tried to escape it suffered a further pounding from the English fleet before a strong wind drove the remaining vessels into the North Sea and they were forced to make their way back to Spain round the north of Scotland and the west of Ireland. Barely half the original Armada returned to port.
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The Spanish Armada.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 7/9/1988; 700+ words
; ...years later his own Armada tested those defences...superb account of the Spanish Armada(1). They...smallest exhibits at the Armada exhibition. It is...thee." 1."The Spanish Armada". Hamish Hamilton...The Defeat of the Spanish Armada". Penguin...
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The Spanish Armada: The Experience of War in 1588.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 7/9/1988; 700+ words
; ...years later his own Armada tested those defences...superb account of the Spanish Armada(1). They...smallest exhibits at the Armada exhibition. It is...thee." 1."The Spanish Armada". Hamish Hamilton...The Defeat of the Spanish Armada". Penguin...
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Spanish Armada crushed 400 years ago // Its defeat was one of the decisive events in Western history
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 7/15/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...expected news. The Spanish invasion fleet, Philip II's great armada, had been sighted...states of Italy. The Spanish bureaucracy was a...remarkable speed. The Spanish administrative machine...Philip sent two more armadas against England...
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Set sail with Spanish Armada.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 12/28/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Start another band. The Spanish Armada, which plays tonight...com MEET THE SPANISH ARMADA ** The band: Crawford...Youth ** The show: The Spanish Armada plays tonight...Listen to tracks by the Spanish Armada at bostonherald...
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On to Calais.(Spanish Armada)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 5/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...defended port in the Spanish empire. For two years...gathering there, and now the Armada, under commander Medina...Drake's raid on the Spanish seaport of Cadiz, Philip...firepower to pick off the Armada's vessels one by one...observed the massive Spanish force and thought...
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"IN THE CONFIDENT HOPE OF A MIRACLE": THE SPANISH ARMADA AND RELIGIOUS MENTALITIES IN THE LATE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...particular aspects such as the Armada campaign. The historiography...interesting area of inquiry is the Spanish Empire in Europe-in terms...the titanic struggle of the Spanish Armada. More specifically...and Flemings who lived under Spanish rule, at times seriously conflicted...
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PUZZLING OUT THE SPANISH ARMADA.
Magazine article from: Calliope; 5/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...southwest England, when the Armada was first sighted in the English...the game and to thrash the Spanish, too." Other legends tell...English, that the defeat of the Spanish Armada immediately led to England...sources of information about the Spanish Armada. Still, we may see...
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In the name of God How winds of zealotry drove Spanish Armada
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/16/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...True Story of the Spanish Armada By Neil Hanson Knopf...slow progress of the armada and the English defense...stench from the filthy Spanish galleys, rowed by...superior to their Spanish opponents," Hanson...9 the shattered Armada was skedaddling north...
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 "Talk of the Nation (NPR)")
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Interview: Neil Hanson discusses his book "The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the Spanish Armada"
Transcript from: Talk of the Nation (NPR); 3/7/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...The True History of the Spanish Armada" Host: NEAL CONAN Time...think you know about the Armada turns out to be completely...the modern era. The Armada still has a great mythic...think we know about the Spanish Armada was that Queen...
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Piratical provocations The Spanish Armada set sail in 1588 for reasons of revenge, not religion, says John Adamson
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 4/3/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...ANY STANDARDS, the defeat of the Spanish Armada -- Philip II of Spain's attempt...Reformation undoubtedly placed Anglo-Spanish relations under strain. Yet it...making a religiously motivated Spanish crusade against Protestant England...
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Spanish Armada
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...anchorage, causing the Spanish fleet to scatter, and...coast of Ireland, the Spanish ships were dispersed by...See G. Mattingly, The Armada (1959); A. McKee...1964); W. Graham, The Spanish Armadas (1972).
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Armada, Spanish
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
ARMADA, SPANISH ARMADA, SPANISH. Often called the "Invincible Armada," the Spanish Armada was the invasion fleet launched against England in 1588 by Philip II of Spain. Its defeat left England Protestant, aided the Dutch Revolt, and compounded...
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Armada
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
Armada, see spanish armada .
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armada
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...rˈmädə / • n. a fleet of warships. ∎ ( the Spanish Armada ) a Spanish naval invasion force sent against England by Philip II of Spain. It was defeated by the English and almost...
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Armada, the
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Armada, the a Spanish naval invasion force sent against England...by storms off the Hebrides. The word armada comes (in the mid 16th century, meaning...a fleet of warships’) via Spanish and ultimately from Latin armare...
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