Spanish armada

Defeat of the Spanish Armada (Original) (Signed) art by Peter Jackson at The Illustration Art Gallery

Queen Elizabeth I also encouraged English captains, known as the Sea Dogs, to plunder Spanish treasure ships.

On the afternoon of September 20, 1588, the San Marcos – one of the jewels in the crown of the Spanish Armada – sank after hitting rocks close to Mutton Island, off the coast of Ireland. Four men out of 490 made it to shore.

Queen Elizabeth I presided over an age of discovery that saw the establishment of the English Protestant church, the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the flourishing of the arts. She reigned from 1558-1603 The...

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The Spanish Armada is a painting by an unknown artist. The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet that had about 130 ships in it. They had the goal of navigating from Flanders all the way to England to invade it. This painting shows the surrending of a galleon and Sir Francis Drake capturing the great galleon of Don Pedro de Valdes.

The spectacular but unsuccessful attempt by King Philip II of Spain to invade Elizabethan England in 1588. The Armada is for the English the classic foreign threat to their country and a powerful icon of national identity.

Martin Frobisher fights against the Spanish Armada (British Channel, 1588).

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The invincible Armada, or the Great and Glorious Armada, was a large navy of about 130 ships collected by Spain in 1586-1588 to invade England during the