Defeat Of The Spanish Armada

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In May 1588 the Spanish Armada also know as the Invincible Armada had set sail from Lisbon to secure the english channel to lead a spanish invasion army to britain. King Philip II dispatched the 130-ship Spanish Armada also known as the spanish fleet. His goals were to invade the coast of england and overthrow Queen Elizabeth. Before this war that King Philip II started Spaniards and English were close. The Spanish were the English's best customers. Before this entire armada there was a another armada the year before in which the english torched some 30 Spanish vessels and seized or destroyed several tons of food and supplies intended for the Armada. King Philip was a haughty, gloomy, and ambitious person unskilled physically but very well skilled in his plans. King Philip was …show more content…

By the time the surviving armada reached Spain it was October and half of the original fleet was lost and about 15,000 men had died. The Invincible Armada made England one of the most powerful people out there and introduced long-range weapons into naval warfare for the first time, ending the era of boarding and close-quarter fighting. The defeat of the Spanish Armada wasn’t the end of Spain’s reign as a world naval power. King Philip II successfully rebuilt his fleet after the 1588 war and continued to have his targets on the English. He eventually sent two armadas one in 1596 and another in 1597 which were both smashed by the storms. It was not until 1604 that Queen Elizabeth and King Philip’s successors finally signed a treaty ending the 19-year Anglo-Spanish War which made both sides unable to attack each other. After the Spanish continued to have strong fleets that dominated a lot of the sea-lanes and was not decline until the mid seventeenth

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