3/16/2024 0 Comments Luis gorrochategui santos, counter armada: the greatest naval disaster in the history of england.![]() ![]() ![]() It turns out that the famous Armada of 1588 was more propaganda achievement than decisive English victory. * Reviews in History * At last the real history of the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585-1604. * Michigan War Studies Review * This monograph dedicated to the Counter-Armada is the first to give a full account of the expedition, and represents an eye-opening contribution to the study of the Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604) historiography. best available account of the disastrous English Armada of 1589. Santos is the first to use Spanish and Portuguese sources as well as English accounts to paint a more accurate picture of what really happened. This book clearly and in a rigorously documented fashion shows how the defeat of the English Armada counterbalanced that of the Spanish, frustrating England's intention of seizing Philip II's American empire and changing the tide of the war.ĭie Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen. This book presents a full-scale account of an event which has been neglected for more than four centuries., It reconstructs the military operations day by day for the first time, taking apart the established notion that, with the defeat of the Spanish Armada, England achieved maritime supremacy and the decay of Spain began. A great deal of attention has been dedicated to the former and precious little to the latter. During the year between July 1588, when the Spanish Armada set sail from Spain and July 1589, when the survivors of the English counterpart of this fleet, the little-known English Armada, reached port in England, two of history's worst naval catastrophes took place. ![]()
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