Readers who want a fast-paced account of how Elizabeth’s navy, led by such captains as Drake, Howard, and Frobisher, managed to defeat the Spanish Armada in battles fought in the English Channel, ...

AN officer of the American navy has lately aroused widespread interest in the influence of sea power upon history. For England the subject has a very special significance. Supremacy at sea is the only ...

In the Western consciousness, there are two main narratives of Spain’s attempted invasion of England in 1588. The first and most dominant in the Anglophone world can be characterized as the Protestant ...

Elizabeth I survives the threat of Mary, Queen of Scots, and decades of palace intrigue. Elizabeth I survives the threat of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, and four decades of palace intrigue. But ...

A virgin who refused to submit herself to a husband, a warrior who defeated the Spanish Armada, ‘Good Queen Bess’ beloved by her subjects – we all think we know Elizabeth I, says historian John Guy, ...

LONDON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - A set of 10 hand-drawn, 16th century maps showing the progress of the Spanish Armada that attacked England in 1588, an event that shaped national identity, will remain in ...

Let’s say this for Catholic Spain’s King Phillip II, the man who in 1588 sent the Spanish Armada against the English: He had a devout Catholic’s faith in Divine Providence. So sure was he of God’s ...

Ask most people in the country what the Spanish Armada was, and they would probably be able to tell you just three things. First, the Armada consisted of a lot of ships from Spain that wanted to ...

Let's say this for Catholic Spain's King Phillip II, the man who in 1588 sent the Spanish Armada against the English: He had a devout Catholic's faith in divine providence. So sure was he of God's ...