The Spanish Armada (often known as Invincible Armada, or the Enterprise of England, Spanish: Grande y Felicísima Armada, lit. 'Great and Most Fortunate...
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The 3rd Spanish Armada, also known as the Spanish Armada of 1597, was involved in a major naval event that took place between 18 October and 15 November...
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The Spanish Armada in Ireland refers to the landfall made upon the coast of Ireland in September 1588 of a large portion of the 130-strong fleet sent by...
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coastal towns from Spain 2nd Spanish Armada, a second unsuccessful Spanish invasion of England 3rd Spanish Armada, a third unsuccessful Spanish invasion of England...
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The 2nd Spanish Armada also known as the Spanish Armada of 1596 was a naval operation that took place during the Anglo–Spanish War. Another invasion of...
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repelled the Spanish Armada in 1588, whilst Spain repelled the English Armada. The 2nd Spanish Armada in 1596 and the 3rd Spanish Armada in 1597 likewise...
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The Armada is a popular history by Garrett Mattingly—a historian who taught at Columbia University—about the attempt of the Spanish Armada to invade England...
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The English Armada (Spanish: Invencible Inglesa, lit. 'English Invincible'), also known as the Counter Armada or the Drake–Norris Expedition, was an attack...
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The Spanish Navy or officially, the Armada, is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces and one of the oldest active naval forces in the world...
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The Spanish Armada was the fleet that attempted to escort an army from Flanders as a part the Habsburg Spanish invasion of England in 1588, was divided...
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Black Irish (folklore) (section Spanish origin myth)
tied to the myth that they were descended from Spanish sailors shipwrecked during the Spanish Armada of 1588. However, no anthropological, historical...
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Francis Drake (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
started as a simple seaman, in 1588 he was part of the fight against the Spanish Armada as a vice-admiral. At an early age, Drake was placed into the household...
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Elizabeth I (category English people of the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604))
vainglory". In 1589, the year after the Spanish Armada, Elizabeth sent to Spain the English Armada or Counter Armada with 23,375 men and 150 ships, led by...
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Third Fernandine War (1381–1382) Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604), including the Spanish Armada, the English Armada and the Nine Years' War (Ireland), part...
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The term "The Armada" may refer to: The Spanish Armada, fleet that attempted to invade England in 1588 The Armada (band), Irish rock band fronted by Jeff...
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Chilean Navy (redirect from Armada de chile)
The Chilean Navy (Spanish: Armada de Chile) is the naval warfare service branch of the Chilean Armed Forces. It is under the Ministry of National Defense...
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John Hawkins (naval commander) (category English people of the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604))
to stop Spain re-arming. In 1589, Hawkins sailed with Francis Drake in the English Armada. One of its goals was to try to intercept the Spanish treasure...
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The Streedagh Armada wrecksite is the site of three shipwrecks of the Spanish Armada at Streedagh beach (/ˈstriːdə/, STREE-da) in north County Sligo, in...
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Galleon (redirect from Spanish galleon)
opposing English and Spanish fleets in the 1588 confrontation of the Spanish Armada and in the 1589 confrontation of the English Armada were galleons, with...
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fleet to face the Spanish Armada. The ship took part in the Great Expedition by privateer Francis Drake, which raided the Spanish New World in 1585 and...
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Channel and the Franco-Spanish invasion never materialized. This threat to Great Britain prompted comparisons to the earlier Spanish Armada of 1588. After the...
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to Spain. The following year Philip's naval power was able to recover after the failed invasion of the English Armada into Spain. Two more Spanish armadas...
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Colombian Navy (redirect from Colombian Armada)
National Navy (Spanish: Armada Nacional de la República de Colombia), also known as the "Armada Nacional" or just the "Armada" in Spanish, is the naval...
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Argentine Navy (redirect from Armada Argentina (Argentine Navy))
The Argentine Navy (ARA; Spanish: Armada de la República Argentina) is the navy of Argentina. It is one of the three branches of the Armed Forces of the...
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William Allen (cardinal) (section Spanish Armada)
Roman Catholicism alive there. Allen assisted in the planning of the Spanish Armada's attempted invasion of England in 1588. It failed badly, but if it had...
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Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham (category English people of the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604))
the battles against the Spanish Armada and was chiefly responsible for the victory that saved England from invasion by the Spanish Empire. Few details of...
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Alonso de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia (redirect from Don Alonso Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Grandee of Spain)
September 1550 – 26 July 1615), was a Spanish aristocrat who was most noted for his role as commander of the Spanish Armada that was to attack the south of...
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HMS Armada was a Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy (RN). She was named in honour of the English victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588. Armada was...
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ships of the Spanish Armada off the coast. On the coast, 2.5 km (1.6 mi) from Milltown Malbay, Spanish Point was named after the Spanish who died here...
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The Spanish Armadas is a 1972 non-fiction history book by the British author Winston Graham. It concerns the Anglo-Spanish War of the late Elizabethan...
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