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Sentence Examples The bilboes are still shown in the Tower of London, among the other spoils of the Spanish Armada. The superior firepower provided by bronze cannonry proved crucial in the English navy's victory in 1588 over the much larger Spanish Armada. The ships were two of the 20-24 Spanish Armada ships that were wrecked off the Irish coastline out of a total fleet of 130 ships. A year later, secure in the north, Gloriana's licensed pirates in their gun-crammed galleons, aided by a storm, saw off the Spanish Armada. Thus Queen Elizabeth I's rousing declamation to her troops at Tilbury in 1588 falls into this category since it is hinged to the crisis of the Spanish Armada. And in the midst of this comes the Spanish Armada and the history of the Hispanic-Scottish village and the pub called the Bonny Hacienda! The big Water Dog even managed to sail with the Spanish Armada, where he was used as a courier between the ships. In England it appeared in the XVI c. in view of the danger from the Spanish Armada. Fleeing with other demoralized shreds of the Spanish Armada, the galley had sailed up the eastern coast of England, driven on ahead of the English fleet by gales and storms. The first bearer of the name Reynolds came to our shores with the Spanish Armada and the galleon on which he travelled was wrecked on the North coast of Sligo. Centuries later the Elizabethans and Jacobeans thought of Sluys as a historical precursor to the Spanish Armada. He publishes an article on Sonnet 127, which he discovered referred to the Spanish Armada. Again, a very rare popular woodcut dates from after the Spanish Armada of 1588 when images of the Queen were used as emblems to rally national pride. Yes, Commissioner, there is no need to paint the picture of the return of the Spanish Armada. This incident occurred only 90 years or so after the victory over the Spanish Armada. The sea caught this vessel by surprise, as it did the galleons of the Spanish Armada in the 16th and 17th centuries. This stretch of narrow road features a number of lay-bys and parking spots, including one at the site of the Spanish Armada memorial. In sitting down to write he would be very surprised if the flow of ideas related to some story about the expedition of the Spanish Armada. A mixed force as he saw it would suffer the same fate as the Spanish Armada. After the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 there was a huge expansion of maritime trade. Show More Sentences One popular speculation suggests the Black Irish are descendants of survivors of the Spanish Armada, despite research discrediting such claims. Because of financial problems, Cervantes worked as a purveyor for the Spanish Armada, and later as a tax collector. In the Spanish Armada campaign he served as a volunteer in the Charles pinnace and afterward accompanied George Clifford, 3rd earl of Cumberland, on three voyages to the West Indies. But many commentators happily dusted off their notes on the Spanish Armada and freshened their jingoism to oppose this one. The bid if it goes ahead may well be contested. But really, the date of the Spanish Armada! It's yet another love game for the Spanish Armada. Sir Francis Drake, of Spanish Armada fame, sailed up from the coast of Chile in 1578 in search of the North-west Passage, and named the territory looming dimly on his quarter New Albion. Among the collections admire the models of merchant ships and exhibits from one of the greatest victories in the country's history, the destruction of the Spanish Armada. Then we got into the era of the Spanish Armada in 1588 during the reign of Elizabeth I, when she issued commemorative metals to mark England's victory over the Spanish Armada. In 1588, during the Elizabethan period, an English fleet under Francis Drake defeated an invading Spanish Armada. Thirty years later, he sent the Spanish Armada to overthrow her, without success. England's defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 associated Elizabeth with one of the greatest military victories in English history. In 1588, hoping to put a stop to Elizabeth's intervention, Philip sent the Spanish Armada to invade England. The first delay came when Queen Elizabeth I ordered all vessels to remain at port for potential use against the Spanish Armada. After England's 1588 victory over the Spanish Armada, the ships were given permission to sail. The Armada Memorial in Plymouth was constructed in 1888 to celebrate the tercentenary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada. At the time of the Spanish Armada in 1588, the daily allowance on board a Royal Navy ship was one pound of biscuit plus one gallon of beer. The period after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 brought new difficulties for Elizabeth that lasted until the end of her reign. Two days later the Spanish Armada sailed from Lisbon but was forced back into port by bad winds. Surrounding the whole castle are large earthworks, designed by the Italian Federigo Gianibelli, and begun in the year before the Spanish Armada. Show More Sentences In 1588, he sent a fleet, the Spanish Armada, to rendezvous with the Duke of Parma's army and convey it across the English Channel. The defeat of the Spanish Armada gave great heart to the Protestant cause across Europe. It was built in 1577 at sixty tons, and was part of the English fleet that defeated the Spanish Armada. Alternatively, a piece of local folklore once suggested that it came from a wrecked Spanish Armada ship. Dartmouth sent numerous ships to join the English fleet that attacked the Spanish Armada, including the Roebuck, Crescent and Hart. English Navy squibs set fire to two dozen enemy ships in a Dutch harbor during the 16th century battle against the Spanish Armada. Reports of the passage of the remnance of the Spanish Armada around Ireland abound with onerous accounts of hardships and survival. The period after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 brought new difficulties for Elizabeth that lasted the fifteen years until the end of her reign. La Girona1588, Lacada Point, County Antrim A GALLEASS of the Spanish Armada had taken on 800 survivors from two other wrecks only to sink in a gale. Standing in the way of the Allies was the English Channel, an obstacle that had frustrated the ambitions of the Spanish Armada and Napoleon Bonaparte's Navy. Superior English ships and seamanship foiled the invasion and led to the destruction of the Spanish Armada in 1588, marking the high point of Elizabeth's reign. Although England was not by then engaged in land operations against Spain, the two countries were still at war, and the Spanish Armada of 1588 was only five years in the past. The Spanish Armada suffered defeat at the hands of the English in 1588 and the situation in the Netherlands became increasingly difficult to manage. During the Spanish Armada of 1597, a Spanish ship, the Bear of Amsterdam missed her objective at Milford Haven and ended up having entered the Dyfi estuary. Soon after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, London merchants presented a petition to Queen Elizabeth I for permission to sail to the Indian Ocean. Bernard's eldest brother was George Gilpin who was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth I to form an alliance between the Dutch States and the English against the Spanish Armada. During the Spanish armada of 1597, Essex was sent home in disgrace after the failed Azores Voyage having left the English coast unguarded. The word armada is from the Spanish armada, which is a cognate with English army. Examples from Classical Literature The violent crisis of the Spanish Armada had marked the close of an epoch at Court. In 1588 the fortress was garrisoned in expectation of a landing by the Spanish Armada. Devonshire men were among the very foremost in the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Drake took a distinguished part in the defeat of the Spanish Armada. It was like Drake playing bowls with the Spanish Armada in sight. The epoch of the Spanish Armada is also the epoch of a genuine newspaper. At the time of the Spanish Armada the castle was most strongly fortified. Note that it was from this port that the Spanish Armada sailed. This was as great a deliverance for New England as that which Old England had experienced in the days of Queen Elizabeth, when the Spanish Armada was wrecked upon her coast. Would it be the Battle of Trafalgar or the Spanish Armada, Katharine? Find more words! 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