Is this how the Spanish Armada got defeated?

Question

The Spanish Armada got hit by the wind/hurricane and lost most of their fleet and the english saw an opportunity and attacked the spanish armada?
Correct me please if there is any mistakes!
Thanks!

Answer 1

To add to that the British had smaller faster ships so they could get into position to attack the bigger, slower Spanish ships.

Answer 2

The Spanish Armada started out being in a crescent shape, which was a strong shape to stop them from being attacke from all angles, but one knight the English made the Armada think they were being attacked, it was too dark to know for sure, but they had to assume that was what was happening. Therefore the Spanish Armada fled up the English channal, which was very windy, but unless they wanted to take the long route it was the only other option. The windy weather ruined their main defence, the crescent shape, the Armada also had to move on in a sort of "zig zag" way cutting through the preasure of the wind. The English followed behind them in their much more stonger, sterdy ships. I'm not sure what happened after that, I hate History, this is the only thing I can remember learning.
Any way good luck. (:¬D
Rachel

Answer 3

More the other way round. The Armada was harried and attacked all the way up the English Channel and given no opportunity to rendevous with the ships waiting to take the invasion forces across to England. As a result of the attacks and in view of the prevailing wind conditions they decided to return home by sailing around Scotland and Ireland rather than going back through the Channel. It was during this part of their journey that many of the ships were wrecked in storms on the Scottish and Irish coasts.

So you've got the two main elements right but the attacks by the English ships came first, followed by the storms.

Answer 4

Pretty much, the Spanish Armada retreated but took a wrong turn and most perished against the rocks after a long voyage anti clockwise around England

Answer 5

The armada had its formation broken by english fire ships. Boats filled with flammable material ignited and sent towards the armada, once their formation was broken the english were able to attack. The retreating armada was then hit by storms as they rounded scotland to head back to spain. Sailors who swum to shore were then attacked by locals including the irish. hope this helps.

Answer 6

No, the Spanish Armada where tactically outmached by the superior leadership of the British fleets.

Answer 7

The English ships were smaller and more manoeuvrable so literally could run rings round the more cumbersome Spanish vessels. Also I believe the English used a "fireship", in other words, they set fire to a ship and sent it into the Spanish fleet which as we've said was cumbersome and difficult to manoeuvre, so that its vessels found it difficult to get out of the way of the "fireship", with the result that some of them were set aflame by the fireship.

Answer 8

Drake was a good sailor and knew that the wind would be in his favour if he approached from a certain angle. With sailing ships wind direction is the most important thing, especially in a battle!
With the wind then against them, the Spanish were at a disadvantage.
Hope this helps, good luck.

Answer 9

I will answer just as soon as i have finished my game of bowls.



ok,finished

much of the armada was scattered by the british first and succumbed to bad weather because they were prevented from reaching their target.

Answer 10

I am assuming that you mean the Spanish Armada that was sent against England in 1588? There were actually 3 of them one in 1588, one in 1596 and another in 1597.

The one in 1588 consisted of 131 ships, 18,000 soldiers and 7,000 sailors. It was routed by a smaller British Fleet at the battle of Gravelines under the command of Lord Howard of Effingham and Sir Francis Drake.

On July 27, the Spanish anchored off Calais, not far from Parma's waiting army of 16,000 in Dunkirk, in a crescent-shaped, tightly-packed defensive formation. They were compelled to do this by the lack of a deep-water port in France or the Low Countries where the Armada could seek shelter—a major oversight on Philip's part, although most European ports were not designed to accommodate a fleet like the Armada in the first place.

At midnight of July 28, the English set eight pitch- and gunpowder-filled ships alight and sent them downwind among the closely-anchored Spanish vessels. Two were intercepted and towed away but many of the Spanish ships cut their cables in order to escape. Medina Sidonia's and a few other "core" ships were exceptions to this. No ship in the Spanish fleet was actually burnt by the fireships but the deadly factor of confusion entered the equation. Spanish morale was damaged and, more importantly, the scattered Spanish ships were now too far to leeward of Calais in the rising south-westerly wind to recover their position. The lighter English vessels could now engage the scattered ships individually.

The English attacked on July 29. Eleven Spanish ships were lost or damaged (though the most seaworthy Atlantic-class vessels escaped largely unscathed), and the Spaniards suffered nearly 2,000 casualties from the battle as well as illness and exposure, before the English fleet ran out of ammunition.

By the day after Gravelines, the wind had backed, southerly, enabling Medina Sidonia to move the Armada northward (away from the French coast). The English pursued and harried the Spanish fleet, preventing its properly reforming and returning to escort Parma, but again ammunition proved the limiting factor and the English were compelled to disengage. The Spaniards gave up against the deadly harrying of the still coherent English fleet. On 12 August, Howard called a halt to the chase in the latitude of the Firth of Forth off Scotland.

The Spanish fleet sailed around Scotland and Ireland into the North Atlantic. The ships were beginning to show wear from the long voyage, and some were kept together by having their hulls bundled up with cables. Supplies of food and water ran short, and the cavalry horses were driven overboard into the sea. Shortly after reaching the latitude of Ireland, the Armada ran straight into a hurricane - to this day, it remains one of the northernmost on record.The hurricane scattered the fleet and drove some two dozen vessels onto the coast of Ireland.

A new theory suggests that the Spanish fleet failed to account for the effect of the gulf stream. Therefore they were much closer to Ireland than planned, a devastating navigational error. This was during the "Little Ice Age" and the Spanish were not aware that conditions were far colder and more difficult than they had expected for their trip around the north of England and Ireland. As a result many more ships and sailors were lost to cold and stormy weather than in combat actions.

In the end, 67 ships and around 10,000 men survived. Many of the men were near death from disease, as the conditions were very cramped and most of the ships ran out of food and water. Many more died in Spain, or on hospital ships in Spanish harbors, from diseases contracted during the voyage. It was reported that, when Philip II learned of the result of the expedition, he declared, "I sent my ships to fight against the English, not against the elements".

You've got the facts of the 1588 Armada right........just backward. As for the other two 1596, and 1597 you can look up the details in the site I'm giving below.