Why did the 16th-century confrontation between England and Spain take place?

After Elizabeth’s famous speech to her men, he sailed “fireships” into the Armada’s midst. These were obsolete ships deliberately torched in the hope of setting light to the Spanish galleons.

The Spanish Armada by Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker (London 1998, 2nd edition Manchester 1999) Armada 1588-1988 by M.J. Rodríguez-Salgado et al., (London, 1998) ...

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 ...

Few images are as well known as the Armada painting, which shows Queen Elizabeth I basking in the aftermath of the greatest military success of her long reign, the defeat of a Spanish Armada.

But the Spanish Armada of King Philip II failed utterly, defeated perhaps less by the military skill of Queen Elizabeth I`s naval commanders than by bad luck and rotten weather.

After what the Heritage Lottery Fund has described as one of the most successful funding campaigns ever, one of three versions of the 1590 “Armada portrait” has been acquired by the Art Fund for ...

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, ...

Part of a formidable “Armada” sent by King Philip II of Spain to conquer the kingdom of his archenemy, Queen Elizabeth I of England, the armed merchantmen had already made a remarkable odyssey.

Few images are as well known as the Armada painting, which shows Queen Elizabeth I basking in the aftermath of the greatest military success of her long reign, the defeat of a Spanish Armada.