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Author : Robert F. Marx
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015038924927
Places the greatest naval battle between England and Spain in historical context and explains how the unexpected British victory changed the course of history.
Author : John Barratt
Publisher : Pen & Sword Books Limited
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064929089
The defeat of the Spanish Armada is one of the turning points in English history, and it was perhaps the defining episode in the long reigns of Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain. The running battle along the Channel between the nimble English ships and the lumbering Spanish galleons has achieved almost legendary status. In this compelling new account John Barratt reconstructs the battle against the Armada in the concise, clear Campaign Chronicles format, which records the action in vivid detail, day by day, hour by hour. He questions common assumptions about the battle and looks again at aspects of the action that have been debated or misunderstood. Included are full orders of battle showing the chains of command and the effective strengths and fighting capabilities of the opposing fleets. There is also an in-depth analysis of the far-reaching consequences of the wreck of Philip II's great enterprise.
Author : Robert F. Marx
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Armada, 1588
ISBN : IND:32000002796664
Places the greatest naval battle between England and Spain in historical context and explains how the unexpected British victory changed the course of history.
Author : John Knox Laughton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Armada, 1588
ISBN : MSU:31293027341464
Author : Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013119337
The Spanish Armada challenges that view. On the 400th anniversary of the famous sea battle, it offers a more balanced account of the confrontation between the Spanish and British naval powers than has previously been presented. According to Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, the British did not "defeat" the Spaniards; rather, the event should be seen as a "failure" of the Armada to invade British territory. Miles from home, with many of its crew sick, and fighting in stormy waters, the Spanish fleet did well, Fernandez argues, not to be completely routed. Further, he says, it reflects badly on the British not to have inflicted more damage on such a disadvantaged opponent.
Author : John Barratt
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781597033
The political machinations, the strategies, and the hour-by-hour accounts of the war that locked Elizabeth I and Philip II in a battle for naval supremacy. The defeat of the Spanish Armada is one of the turning points in English history, and it was perhaps the defining episode in the long reigns of Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain. The running battle along the Channel between the nimble English ships and the lumbering Spanish galleons has achieved almost legendary status. In this compelling new account John Barratt reconstructs the battle against the Armada in the concise, clear Campaign Chronicles format, which records the action in vivid detail, day by day, hour by hour. He questions common assumptions about the battle and looks again at aspects of the action that have been debated or misunderstood. Included are full orders of battle showing the chains of command and the effective strengths and fighting capabilities of the opposing fleets.There is also an in-depth analysis of the far-reaching consequences of the wreck of Philip II’s great enterprise.
Author : Neil Hanson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446423226
'Continual, destruction in the foretop, the pox above board, the plague between decks, hell in the forecastle and the devil at the helm.' It is the summer of 1588, and the fate and future of England hangs in the balance. Obsessed by the dream of reclaiming England for the Catholic Church - and adding another country to his sprawling dominions - Philip II of Spain has assembled a fleet of huge, castle-crowned galleons that stretches for miles across the face of the ocean. In wait in the Netherlands lies a battle-hardened Spanish army, ferocious professionals with a taste for rape, looting and atrocity. Across the Channel the English are scraping together bands of barely trained men, many armed only with scythes, stakes or longbows. Great warning beacons stand all along the coast of England; torches and kindling lie to hand. Watchmen strain their eyes to see over the horizon. Their only hope lies in the English Navy. But Philip's Armada is doomed before it even leaves port. As soon as it engages with the English fleet, its shortcomings are clear in the face of superior tactics and firepower. Its hulls shot through with cannon fire, its men dying in thousands from wounds and disease, the mightiest fleet ever assembled is mercilessly harried into fleeing north, at the mercy of the elements. Over forty Spanish ships are wrecked on the Irish coast; survivors crawling ashore have their throats slit and their purses ransacked. The dream of subduing the Protestant English lies in tatters. A triumphant combination of historical detail and storytelling flair, THE CONFIDENT HOPE OF A MIRACLE draws on undiscovered and little known personal papers and records to tell the epic story of the Spanish Armada in all its scope. No book has ever conveyed in such vivid, living detail how kings, queens and courtiers, sea captains, deckhands and galley slaves, the highest and the lowest in the land, fared in those turbulent months as the fate of England teetered on the brink.
Author : Robert Hutchinson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466847484
After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe, including Spain. In October 1585, King Philip II of Spain declared his intention to destroy Protestant England and began preparing invasion plans, leading to an intense intelligence war between the two countries and culminating in the dramatic sea battles of 1588. Popular history dictates that the defeat of the Spanish Armada was a David versus Goliath victory, snatched by plucky and outnumbered English forces. In this tightly written and fascinating new history, Robert Hutchinson explodes this myth, revealing the true destroyers of the Spanish Armada—inclement weather and bad luck. Of the 125 Spanish ships that set sail against England, only 60 limped home, the rest wrecked or sank with barely a shot fired from their main armament. In this dramatic hour-by-hour, blow-by-blow account of the Spanish Armada's attempt to destroy Elizabeth's England, Hutchinson spins a compelling and unbelievable narrative. Using everything from contemporary eyewitness accounts to papers held by the national archives in Spain and the United Kingdom, Robert Hutchinson re-creates one of history's most famous episodes in an entirely new way.
Author : David Anderson
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0531195058
Describes the religious and territorial conflict between England and Spain and discusses the events of 1588 when the Spanish Armada met the English navy in the English Channel.
Author : John Knox Laughton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Armada, 1588
ISBN : HARVARD:32044005605019
Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Armada, 1588
ISBN : UOM:39015005886711
How the British fleet under Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins defeated the Armada in 1588.
Author : John Frederick Charles Fuller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Military history
ISBN : UOM:39076005387357
Author : John Pine
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066247249
This is a history book that explores the events that led up to The Spanish Armada, which was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by the Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aristocrat without previous naval experience appointed by Philip II of Spain. His orders were to sail up the English Channel, link up with the Duke of Parma in Flanders, and escort an invasion force that would land in England and overthrow Elizabeth I. Its purpose was to reinstate Catholicism in England, end support for the Dutch Republic, and prevent attacks by English and Dutch privateers against Spanish interests in the Americas.
Author : William W. Lace
Publisher : Lucent Books
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1560064587
Examines the pivotal naval battle in which the upstart British defeated the supposedly invincible Spanish fleet, changing the balance of power in sixteenth century Europe.
Author : Robert Frank MARX
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1063140305