The Armada was to be commanded by the Marquis of Santa Cruz, the most distinguished officer in the Spanish navy, a weather-beaten old hero who was said never to have lost a battle. But Santa Cruz ...

The attempt by the Spanish Armada to take England was one of the most important events of the early modern period. It deserves the treatment it gets in this volume by Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker.

In “Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England’s Deliverance in 1588,” Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker trace the genesis, fate and legacy of a venture that is remembered as a disaster but ...

Like Khubilai Khan’s great invasion fleets of the thirteenth century, the Spanish Armada sent by King Phillip II against England in 1588 is legendary not only for its size and power, but also ...

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 Leyte Gulf, 1944 Date 1954 1956 Call number D25 .F96 Type Books ...

Before the Spanish Armada, an even more dangerous invasion loomed.

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 ...

But many things go wrong once the Armada sails from Lisbon on May 28. Contrary winds force it back for days, and on June 19, most of the ships stop at Corunna, in northern Spain, to replenish their ...