what was the spanish armada?

Question

when did it begin? what happened?

Answer 1

In the late 1500's The King of Spain wanted to control the English channel and conquer England. He sent his navy (Armada of SHips) to attack the English Fleet. A major storm came up and destroyed the Spainish Fleet. Remember they did not have accurate weather forcasts back then. It basically ended the Spanish domination of the Oceans and opened the way for the English.

Answer 2

The Spanish Armada was a fleet of warships that was created and launched in about 1588. This navy dominated the seas for quite some time, and also dominated trade that was carried out by sea. The Spanish Armada was eventually defeated by the Brittish Navy.

Answer 3

The Armada was the Spanish Navy - in particular, the fleet that was assembled in the 1580's by King Philip II with the express purpose of secureing control of the English Channel so that England could be invaded from the (Spanish-occupied) Netherlands.
It ought to be borned in mind that in the previous century there was a very great deal of Spanish influence in this country - Henry VII's first wife (Katherine of Aragon) was Spanish, as was the Archbishop of Canterbury at that time, and more immediately, Queen Mary Tudor had married King Philip II in 1554. Then, as now, there was a strong undercurrent of anti-foreign sentiment here, which the so-called "Reformers" enthusiastically latched onto as they sought to turn England against the Catholic Faith.
Queen Elizabeth I had an efficient secret service, so the authorities were well aware that the Spaniards were constructing a large fleet. An expedition was led by Sir Francis Drake in 1587 to attack the Spansih ships in their home port of Cadiz, which met with some success - this pre-emptive strike came to be called " the singeing of the King of Spain's beard".
Nonetheless the Armada of some 300 ships were sent to attack England the following year. For a number of reasons it was a disaster; no Spanish soldiers ever set foor on English soil, and very few of the defeated ships ever made it home. The Spanish commander, the Duke of Medina-Sidonia, was an utter incompetent, who had only got the command because he was a prominent aristocrat and not for any naval ability or experience; unlike the English commander Lord Howard of Effingham; the weather certainly favoured the English, with a storm blowing up and disrupting the Spanish ships at precisely the worst time from their point of view and the best time from England's; and the larger Spanish ships were much less manoevreable than the smaller English vessels, whose crews were also as a rule superior sailors.
The Spansih vessels, having been worsted by the weather and by the English fleet, could only escape home by sailing around the north of (neutral)Scotland and down the west coast of Ireland. In the stormy weather a great many of them were wrecked on the coasts of either western Scotland or western Ireland; many of these wrecks have been located and explored by divers in recent times.
After the English victory Queen Elizabeth had a medal struck which gave credit to the Almighty: "God blew, and they were scattered", it stated. This did not go down well with the common sailors, or indded their captains, whose naval skills had been decisive.

Answer 4

1588. In May 1588, Philip II of Spain's fleet set sail from Lisbon with 130 ships and 19,000 men, commanded by Medina Sidonia carrying detailed instructions from Philip. While waiting for supplies off Corunna in northern Spain, the fleet was scattered by a storm. Disheartened, they did not restart their voyage until July.

Go to the links for the full history. It is too long to paste it here.

Answer 5

the spanish armada was the name of the fleet of ships sent by the spanish govt

Answer 6

armada means a lot of people in a like army sense.
so it was a whole grip of mexicans!
iono when it began
maybe when the americans took over cali

Answer 7

a fleet of ships that attacked england during the reighn of Elizabeth the first, but Francis Drake and his army defeated them and sent them all the way around the edge of the country, right around the whole coast and back home. they got wrecked on the way though and anly a few ships made it back to Spain. i think.

Answer 8

Arts and Humanities?

Try a different category.

Answer 9

fleet of sailing war ships

Answer 10

Try this BBC link...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/adams_armada_01.shtml