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, ...

All the crucial naval battles in the history of Europe except two—the crushing of the Spanish Armada, and Jutland—have been fought on one piece of water. It is not even dignified with the name of ...

On Sept. 21, 1588, a savage storm lashed the western coast of Ireland. As the gale intensified, three bulky ships ran aground on the sands of Streedagh Strand, north of Sligo. Part of a formidable ...

V. 1. From the earliest times to the Battle of Lepanto -- v. 2. From the defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588, to the Battle of Waterloo, 1815 -- v. 3. From the Seven Days Battle, 1862, to the Battle of ...