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  2. Spanish Armada - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish Armada (often known as Invincible Armada, or the Enterprise of England, Spanish: Grande y Felicísima Armada, lit. 'Great and Most Fortunate Navy') was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by Alonso de Guzmán, Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aristocrat without previous naval experience appointed by Philip II of Spain.

  3. Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) - Wikipedia

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    The Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) was an intermittent conflict between the Habsburg Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of England that was never formally declared. [4] It began with England's military expedition in 1585 to what was then the Spanish Netherlands under the command of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, in support of the Dutch rebellion against Spanish Habsburg rule.

  4. 1588 in Spain - Wikipedia

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    July 23 - The English and Spanish fleets meet again, off Portland; the English again have the better of it. July 29 - The English fleet defeats the Armada at the Battle of Gravelines. [2] August 2 - The fleeing Spanish fleet sails past the Firth of Forth and the English call off their pursuit.

  5. Speech to the Troops at Tilbury - Wikipedia

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    The speech's veracity was accepted by the historian J. E. Neale in an article, 'The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth': "I see no serious reason for rejecting the speech. ... some of the phrases have every appearance of being the Queen's, and the whole tone of the speech is surely very much in keeping even with the few Elizabethan quotations that I have had room for in this article. ...

  6. English ship Dainty (1588) - Wikipedia

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    Dainty was an English race-built galleon that began to be built in 1588. The original name was Repentance , but this was soon changed. It participated in some naval engagements in the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) .

  7. Raid on Mount's Bay - Wikipedia

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    The Raid on Mounts Bay also known as the Spanish attack on Mounts Bay was a Spanish raid on Cornwall, England, that took place between 2 and 4 August 1595 in the context of the Brittany Campaign during the Anglo-Spanish war of 1585-1604. It was conducted by a Spanish naval squadron led by Carlos de Amésquita on patrol from Brittany, France.

  8. Battle of Gravelines - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Gravelines is the name given to two battles: . The Battle of Gravelines (1558), in which Spain defeated France in 1558.; The Battle of Gravelines (1588), which saw an indecisive engagement between Spanish and English fleets during the attempted Spanish invasion of England in 1588.

  9. English Armada - Wikipedia

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    The English Armada (Spanish: Invencible Inglesa, lit. 'Invincible English'), also known as the Counter Armada or the Drake–Norris Expedition, was an attack fleet sent against Spain by Queen Elizabeth I of England that sailed on 28 April 1589 during the undeclared Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) and the Eighty Years' War.

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