Garrett Mattingly's thrilling narrative sets out the background of the sixteenth-century European intrigue and religious unrest that gave rise to one of the world's most famous maritime crusades and the naval battles that decided its fate. In putting the naval campaign of 1588 back into the context
The Spanish Armada
โ Scribed by Sam Willis
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1405933887
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โฆ Synopsis
Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.
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Why did the Spanish launch their Armada on England?
How did Francis Drake counter the Spanish threat?
And why were so many ships lost at sea?
In 1585 Spain was the most POWERFUL Empire in the known world.
As tensions between PROTESTANT England and CATHOLIC Spain rose . . .
SPAIN decided to INVADE ENGLAND.
And launched the SPANISH ARMADA
This raises the question: how did England manage to overthrow the Spanish invasion? Was it luck or judgement?
Discover the answers and more inside Sam Willis's Ladybird Expert - The Spanish Armada, the thrilling and accessible account that explains what happened, who the key figures were and the tactics, triumphs and failures on both sides . . .
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