When Queen Mary I died, and with her England ... Armada. And on 28 April 1588, with 130 ships under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia carrying 8,000 sailors and 18,000 soldiers, the ...

Support The Spanish overestimated the level of support there would be in England for Spanish control and a return to Roman Catholicism. Weather The lack of a secure port where the Spanish could ...

They show the defence of England's shores against invasion by the Spanish fleet of 141 ships and 24,000 men. The English fleet of 66 ships defeated the Armada by sailing fire ships into its ...

ending with the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Froude changed the title of this twelfth volume, having decided that the Armada marked the defeat of Catholicism in England, and the appropriate ...

He sent an army under the Duke of Alva to defeat the rebels ... led to Philip finally deciding to invade England, by means of the Spanish Armada. Philip’s plans for the invasion of England ...

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 ...

England suffered a fifth straight defeat as world champions South Africa won 29-20 at Twickenham on Saturday. It was also their third loss in as many November internationals after last-gasp 24-22 ...

The Spanish Armada was a fleet of around 130 ships with 30,000 men onboard launched by King Philip II of Spain in 1588 as part of a planned invasion of England. It was eventually defeated by the ...