The drama is set in 1588 during the attack of the Spanish Armada. A young boy - Thomas Harte ... deck by the captain and told to prepare for battle. Thomas recalls how just two hours before ...

When Queen Mary I died, and with her England's brief and bloody restoration of Catholicism, she was replaced with Elizabeth I, who reimposed Protestantism. But Philip II of Spain, Mary's widower ...

Leaders The Duke of Medina Sidonia led the Spanish fleet, but he was inexperienced in naval battle and so made some fatal errors in his planning and tactics. Planning The strength of the Spanish ...

All the crucial naval battles in the history of Europe except two—the crushing of the Spanish Armada, and Jutland ... There, for many weeks, a battle has been fought which in number of fighting ...

The fleet sails again in July, and the first battle with the English comes on July ... The most interesting of these is a comparison of a possible Spanish landing in England in 1588—had the Armada ...

The battle of Tres de Abril As the sun rose over ... However, four days later, on April 7, the Spanish armada arrived from Manila aboard Don Juan de Austria, providing much-needed supplies to ...