Spanish Armada
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Armada, Spanish
defeat by English fleet marked Spain’s decline and England’s rise as a world power (1588). [Eur. Hist.: EB, 1: 521–522]
Spanish Armada
Britain supplanted Spain as master of the sea. [Br. Hist.: Harbottle, 19]
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It was a matter of bad luck for King Philip II of Spain that a storm scattered the
invincible Armada in the English Channel.
Thus it is fitting that he has now turned his attention to Spanish naval strength in northwestern European waters, in order, as he says, to illustrate the point "that Spain remained a major naval power for nearly a century after the defeat of the
Invincible Armada" (ix).
Philip II of Spain, furious at this, sent a fleet of 132 vessels (the
Invincible Armada) to gain control of the English Channel and make it possible for the Spanish army in the Netherlands to invade England.
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