Download or read book The Voyage of the Armada written by David Armine Howarth and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1981 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spanish Story of the Armada written by James Anthony Froude and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spanish Armada written by Robert Hutchinson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the intelligence war behind the sea battles of 1588 to reveal lesser-known factors that led to England's dramatic victory, challenging popular theories to argue that the Spanish Armada was defeated by inclement weather and bad luck.
Download or read book The Voyage of the Armada written by David Howarth and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May of 1588, on the order of Spain's King Philip, 30,000 soldiers and sailors armed with arquebus and musket set out to sea. There were sixty-five galleons and other major ships of war, twenty-five urcas, and many more smaller vessels. A larger fleet had never before been assembled. In "The Voyage of the Armada," David Howarth brilliantly conveys the drama of the Spanish Armada's progress and brings to life the personalities of the men who influenced its course, from the dogmatic and irrational Philip II to Don Juan Martinez de Recalde, a veteran of many sea campaigns, to Don Pedro and Don Diego de Valdes, who were cousins but also bitter enemies, to the Spanish soldiers and sailors who unquestioningly ventured into unknown seas to confront their fates. In 1884, almost three hundred years after the Armada, Cesareo Fernandez Duro, a Spanish naval captain, published one hundred and ninety-nine letters and documents of the sixteenth century that he had discovered in the royal archives. The general public, however, remained ignorant of much of this material portraying the events of the Armada from the Spanish perspective. Basing his narrative on previously unexplored Spanish sources, David Howarth shows that there is always another side to every conflict. Illustrated with lavish maps and portraits of some of the more notable characters involved, "The Voyage of the Armada" recounts the adventures of these brave men as they go from battles to storms to wrecks and then, finally -- for the lucky ones -- return home.
Download or read book The Confident Hope of a Miracle written by Neil Hanson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real story of the Spanish Armada. In the winter of 1587 the Spanish Armada, the largest force of warships ever assembled, set sail to crush the English navy. This breathtaking overview of one of the most fascinating campaigns in European history begins with the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, the event that precipitated the launching of the Armada. From the first whispers of the threat against England and the English crown, to the return of the battered remnants of the fleet to Spain eighteen months later, it is a story rich in incident and intrigue. In this controversial study, Neil Hanson claims that Francis Drake’s intention was not to sink the Armada ships but to disable and plunder them. He further claims that Queen Elizabeth was a monarch who left many of the survivors of the battle to die of disease or starvation and whose parsimony, prevarication and cynicism left her unable to make crucial decisions. Drawing on previously undiscovered personal papers, Neil Hanson conveys in vivid detail how the highest and the lowest in the land fared in those turbulent months when the destiny of all Europe hung in the balance. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Download or read book The Tsar s Last Armada written by Constantine Pleshakov and published by . This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively account of one of the greatest naval battles in history retraces the fateful journey of the Tsar's armada from the Suez Canal to the Korea Straight, where it was destroyed by the Japanese Navy in 1905. Reprint.
Download or read book The Struggle for the South Atlantic The Armada of the Strait 1581 84 written by Carla Rahn Phillips and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the annotated translation of an account of Spain’s Armada of the Strait, which traveled to Brazil and the Strait of Magellan under Don Diego Flores de Valdés in 1581–84. Pedro de Rada, the official scribe of the armada, kept a detailed, neutral chronicle of the venture which remained in private hands until 1999 but is now held in the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California. It is published here for the first time. The voyage came at a crucial juncture in global politics, when Philip II of Spain had claimed the throne of Portugal and its empire, and Francis Drake’s daring peacetime raids had challenged the dominance of Spain and Portugal in the Americas.
Download or read book The Spanish Armada written by Jay Williams and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1588, a great body of ships sailed from Spain on a Crusade: to restore England to Catholicism. The ensuing events brought a Spanish word, armada, into the English language and created a host of legends. Intrepid English sea dogs in tiny ships, it was said, had bravely faced down towering Spanish galleons. Finally, a storm sent by a vengeful God wrecked most of that proud fleet on its way home. Award-winning author Jay Williams sheds new light on the traditional picture. Although the English were superior sailors, the two fleets were evenly matched. Moreover, the battle emerges as the high point of a four-year cold war between England and Spain. Only when set in the context of a Europe bitterly divided between Catholics and Protestants can the contest be fully understood. The personalities of Queen Elizabeth I of England and King Philip II of Spain and their commanders - especially Francis Drake - are also key to this dramatic story.
Download or read book The English Armada written by Luis Gorrochategui Santos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the year between July 1588, when the Spanish Armada set sail from Spain and July 1589, when the survivors of the English counterpart of this fleet, the little-known English Armada, reached port in England, two of history's worst naval catastrophes took place. A great deal of attention has been dedicated to the former and precious little to the latter. This book presents a full-scale account of an event which has been neglected for more than four centuries. It reconstructs the military operations day by day for the first time, taking apart the established notion that, with the defeat of the Spanish Armada, England achieved maritime supremacy and the decay of Spain began. This book clearly and in a rigorously documented fashion shows how the defeat of the English Armada counterbalanced that of the Spanish, frustrating England's intention of seizing Philip II's American empire and changing the tide of the war.
Download or read book The Story of the Great Armada written by John Richard Hale and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Battle of the Spanish Armada written by Roger Hart and published by Wayland. This book was released on 1973 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the causes and describes the events of the decisive battle that assured English independence from Spanish rule.
Download or read book The Year After the Armada written by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Year After the Armada: And Other Historical Studies Circumstances have led me to follow the course Of modern history into somewhat unfrequented channels, and in the pursuit Of my main Object it is occasionally my good fortune to come across a piece Of unused or unfamiliar contemporary infor mation - some faded manuscript or forgotten news letter - which seems to throw fresh light upon an important period or an interesting personality Of the past. It is true that in some cases the matters recounted are not Of I any great historical significance, but even then there is generally some quaint glimpse' to be caught Of bygone manners or events which redeems the document from worthlessness. From such treasure-trove as this, and from other sources which have generally been overlooked or neglected by English historians, the studies contained in the present book have been drawn; and it is hoped that some fresh knowledge as well as amusement may be gained from them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Armada written by Garrett Mattingly and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1959 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the English defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 in the framework of European history. Also covers diplomacy, strategy, and politics.
Download or read book The Spanish Armada written by David Anderson and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1988 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the religious and territorial conflict between England and Spain and discusses the events of 1588 when the Spanish Armada met the English navy in the English Channel.
Download or read book Armada written by Charles Gidley Wheeler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abandoned by his father to drown off the coast of Spain, Tristram Pascoe's life is saved by Sara, who is in a marriage of convenience to a Portuguese nobleman. Suspected of heresy, Sara is brought before the Grand Inquisitor and risks being burnt as a witch to help Tristram escape. Tristram is pressed into service as an English spy, and travels to Cadiz and Lisbon, where the Spanish invasion force is assembling. From the first rumors of a Spanish invasion to the horrors of the Channel firefights, Armada is a story of the triumph of human love over religious conflict.
Download or read book You Wouldn t Want to Sail in the Spanish Armada written by John Malam and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Brighton, UK: Book House, 2003.
Download or read book The Spanish Armada written by Rupert Matthews and published by Spellmount Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why the Spanish Armada failed to conquer England - and transform world history
