The thinking was that God intervened and the windy weather was a sign that God was on Elizabeth’s side. Leaders The Duke of Medina Sidonia led the Spanish fleet, but he was inexperienced in ...

Queen Elizabeth I was known to be an all-powerful monarch, a warrior who defeated the Spanish Armada, a leader loved by her subjects and a muse for Shakespeare. The late Queen of England and ...

It's been suggested that the monarch may have died as a child and been replaced with a village boy over fears of Henry VIII's ...

When Queen Mary I died, and with her England's brief and bloody restoration of Catholicism, she was replaced with Elizabeth I ... and 18,000 soldiers, the Spanish Armada set sail from Lisbon.

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 ...

Born into royal turmoil, Elizabeth I faced betrayal, imprisonment, and religious conflict before becoming one of England’s ...

The greatest challenge to Elizabeth was first sighted in the English Channel on 29 July 1588. This was the Spanish Armada, a fleet of armed ships sailing towards England in a crescent formation.

In the summer of 1588 the Spanish Armada set sail for ... Philip II and the protestant Queen Elizabeth I. Print Collector/Getty Images The English fleet defeated the Spanish Armada in the English ...