Over the course of a little more than 20 years, Philip went from pursuing Elizabeth’s hand in marriage to plotting her ...

Another factor that Catholics believed led to their defeat was the Armada’s lack of familiarity with the seas surrounding England, Scotland, and Ireland. After Spanish defeat in 1588, Anglo-Saxon ...

His plan is to defeat the ships of Queen Elizabeth I ... The most interesting of these is a comparison of a possible Spanish landing in England in 1588—had the Armada succeeded—with the successful ...

Rare maps depicting the defeat of the Spanish Armada are set to go on show for ... an impressive and well-organised attempt to conquer England, which was defeated by an equally well-organised ...

In “Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England’s Deliverance in 1588,” Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker trace the genesis, fate and legacy of a venture that is remembered as a disaster but ...

Michael Barry has already published four impressive books on Spain, and this fifth, about the famous Spanish Armada ... Spanish Netherlands supported by England; English piratical attacks on ...

seeking to depose Elizabeth and bring Protestant England back into the Catholic fold. The discovery of the letters between the Duke of Medina Sidonia, Commander of the Armada and his second in ...