Spanish Armada Informative Speech

One thing i like about history is that it repeats itself. But one set of events that is not repeated (or if it was, please let me know) is the spanish armada. Today i will be talking about the history of the spanish armada. Hope you like it.
Now you’re probably thinking, “how did this whole thing start up?” (at least that’s what i was thinking thirty seconds ago). Well let me tell you, it’s a pretty funny story. It all started way back when philip the 2nd of spain, after mary (bloody mary, not the virgin) died in 1558 and her sister, queen elizabeth the 1st, refused to marry him and was already reformist, he got mad and told everyone that she was a heretic and wasn’t the rightful ruler of england (technically, king henry the 8th never divorced catherine officially, so elizabeth wasn’t the true ruler, but everyone liked her better than mary). Anyway, with that in motion, he tried to replace her with mary, queen of scots, (another mary) but she was imprisoned by elizabeth and later executed in 1587. After that, elizabeth countered by helping with the dutch revolt against spain, and having privateers attack spanish ships.

At this point all that philip wanted was for england to be catholic, and under his control. So he built an armada to invade england (which was okay with the pope because he treated it as a crusade, not an invasion). In april 1587 francis drake led a raid on ca`diz, capturing or destroying thirty ships and lots of supplies(note; francis drake was working for the british) . and, (que trumpets) In 1588, a massive fleet consisting of 130 ships, 8,000 sailors, 18,000 soldiers, 1,500 brass guns, and 1,000 iron guns sailed out to the british channel (i refer to the spanish armada itself, of