What Happened When The English Attacked The Spanish Armarda?

Question

I Know The English Won, But How? And What Did They Do?

Answer 1

It sank.

Answer 2

The Spanish had suffered from a recent loss in some battle or another, so their numbers were not as high as they had been before hand.
A big storm destroyed many of the armada's ships.
The help of pirates who attacked the scattered armada in chuncks versus as a whole.
And the English channel which had just the right geography, that the English could navigate through it in a small group and be unnoticable versus the spanish who were a large group.
It was like shooting fish in a barrel.

Answer 3

In 1588, King Philip II of Spain ordered his naval forces to attack and invade England, something that had not been accomplished since medieval times. However, the English fleet met the Spanish in the English Channel (following Queen Elizabeth I's Golden Speech), and their smaller boats proved to be more agile than the large and imposing Spanish ships. Eventually, the English won.

Answer 4

The English defeated the Spanish Armada before the storm. They did so because the Enghlish ships were smaller and more manouevrable. Also the Spanish ships though large some could only fire their cannons once; the English gunners were not so hampered. The Armada was scattered by bad weather after the battle!

Answer 5

The Spanish Armada had already been weakened and scattered by a bad storm at sea. When the English engaged them, it was in a location that gave the English an advantage. Only parts of the Spanish fleet could engage them at once, rather than the whole group.
The English were able to fight the Armada in pieces, negating the Spanish advantage in numbers.
Without their numerical superiority, the Spanish could not deal with the superior fighters and seamen of the English navy.

Answer 6

The main reason was that the Spanish made there ships very large , the English ships were dwarfed by them . so the English hugged close to the Spanish and they were unable to bring there guns to bear on the small ships, so the English were able to pound away at there keels and they were helpless to respond . Plus the fact all the British ships were crewed by professional sailors most of the Spanish were crewed by slaves

Answer 7

The English used Fireships.
Fireships are simply ships loaded with tar, gunpowder and pitch.
You then set fire to your ship and run it straight at the enemy fleet, then jump off quick.

The Armada was scattered as each captain tried to avoid the fireships.
Many Spanish ships simply cut their anchor ropes to make a quick escape. The loss of their anchors was the reason so many were lost on their way home:
The Armada was forced to sail north and circumnavigate the British Isles anti-clockwise, with many of the ships being lost due to massive storms off Scotland and Ireland.

Answer 8

The Spanish Armada sailed from Spain in July 1588. The Spanish Armada's task was to overthrow protestant England lead by Queen Elizabeth I. The Spanish Armada proved to be an expensive disaster for the Spanish but for the English it was a celebrated victory making Sir Francis Drake even more of a hero than he already was and even having an impact on Tudor Christmas celebrations!

Why did Spain want to overthrow Elizabeth? There were a number of reasons.
at the time of Elizabeth, Spain controlled what was called the Spanish Netherlands. This consisted of modern day Holland and Belgium. In particular, Holland wanted its independence. They did not like being made to be Catholic; in fact, Protestant ideas had taken root in Holland and many of those in Holland were secret Protestants. If they had publicly stated their Protestant beliefs, their lives would have been in danger. Spain used a religious secret police called the Inquisition to hunt out Protestants. However, during Elizabeth's reign, the English had been helping the Dutch Protestants in Holland. This greatly angered the king of Spain - Philip II - who wanted to stop this. He had for a short time been married to Elizabeth's half-sister, Mary, and when they were married, England was Catholic. With England under his control, Philip could control the English Channel and his ships could have an easy passage from Spain to the Spanish Netherlands. Spanish troops stationed there could be easily supplied.
also English 'sea-dogs' had been causing a great deal of damage to Spain's trade in silver. Men such as Sir Francis Drake attacked Spanish shipping off of the West Indies and Spain lost a vast sum of money when the ships carrying silver sunk or had their cargo captured by Drake. To the English, Drake was a hero but to the Spanish he was nothing more than a pirate who, in their view, was allowed to do what he did with the full knowledge of the queen. This the Spanish could not accept.
In 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed in England on the orders of Elizabeth. Mary, Queen of Scots, was a Catholic and Philip II believed that he had a duty to ensure no more Catholics were arrested in England and that no more should be executed. Mary, Queen of Scots, had also made it clear that if she became queen of England, Philip should inherit the throne after her death.

Hence his decision to attack and invade England.

The story of the Spanish Armada is one of mistakes all the way through. Even before the Armada sailed, serious problems were encountered: