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4 days ago · Using dramatic reconstructions, featuring Anita Dobson as Queen Elizabeth I, and contributions from historians, the programme portrays the imminent threat England faced in the summer of 1588 and recounts how they were able to save the country from an attack by 125 Spanish ships keen on invasion.
Sep 12, 2024 · Armada: The Untold Story: 12 Days to Save England In the first part of a major three-part drama documentary series, newly discovered documents take us right inside the Spanish Armada for the very first time and reveal a missed opportunity that could have spelled the end of Tudor England.
Sep 12, 2024 · The failure of the Armada was presented as an overwhelming defeat by plucky (and Protestant) England over a despotic Catholic Spain, brimming with the fanaticism of the Inquisition, and inflicting cruelties during its colonisation of the Americas.
2 days ago · The Spanish Armada (often known as Invincible Armada, or the Enterprise of England, Spanish: Grande y Felicísima Armada, lit. 'Great and Most Fortunate Navy') was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by Alonso de Guzmán, Duke of Medina Sidonia , an aristocrat without previous naval experience appointed by Philip ...
4 days ago · Even on the high seas, the days of fabulous victories were over, for the king of Spain soon learned to defend his empire and his treasure fleets. Both Drake and Hawkins died in 1596 on the same ill-conceived expedition into Spanish Caribbean waters
Sep 25, 2024 · Spanish Armada, the great fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England in conjunction with a Spanish army from Flanders.
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Sep 23, 2024 · The action group Save the Trees of Armada Way (Straw) called the council's consultation period "inadequate" A petition to save the trees had already reached more than 4,000 signatures.
