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The 2nd Spanish Armada also known as the Spanish Armada of 1596 [12] [13] was a naval operation that took place during the Anglo–Spanish War.Another invasion of England or Ireland was attempted in the autumn of 1596 by King Philip II of Spain.
The 3rd Spanish Armada, ... The Spaniards had captured Calais in 1596 which meant that an invasion of England could ... A restaurant in the same town is also named ...
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.
Cathal O'Connor Faly (Irish: Cathal Ó Conchobhair Failghe; c. 1540 - October 1596) was an Irish rebel of noble ancestry. As a young man, O'Connor Faly was a political spy for Catholics in Great Britain. He became a rebel and killed several high-ranking English soldiers before escaping to Spain in the 1580s, where he joined the Spanish Armada.
The sacking of Cádiz in 1596 was one of the worst Spanish defeats in the course of the war, together with an earlier attack on the city in 1587, as well as the loss of the Armada in 1588. The economic losses produced by the Earl of Essex's expedition against the city and the anchored fleet in the port, estimated at 5 million ducats, [ 2 ...
The siege of Calais of 1596, also known as the Spanish conquest of Calais, took place at the strategic port-city of Calais (present-day northern France), between 8 and 24 April 1596, as part of the Franco-Spanish War (1595–1598), in the context of the French Wars of Religion, the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604), and the Eighty Years' War.
New artifacts have been found on the legendary Spanish galleon San Jose, Colombia's government announced Thursday, after the first robotic exploration of the three-century-old shipwreck.. Dubbed ...
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada by Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1796. On 6 August the English Navy defeats the invading Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines. In the aftermath of the Spanish Armada's failed campaign in 1588, Captain Diego de Medrano became interim Admiral of the Spanish Armada during the retreat of the remaining fleet. [4]