The Spanish Armada.

As the movie Elizabeth, The Golden Age shows us, the Spanish navy was really powerful, almost invincible but why does it loses against England’s ships? I decided to investigate this a bit more.

I found out that the battle of the armadas was ONE battle of the War between The British Empire and Spain (1585-1604). The bad climatic conditions helped Britain to destroy and damage more than 40 Spanish navies.  Another interesting fact is that the British seemed to know what was the plan of the Spanish, so they fought at distant to not to have a direct battle with the soldiers in the ships.

paiting by: Nicholas Hilliard (who fought in the battle)

Another important point was the extreme faith that Felipe II (King of Spain in those times) had on their victory. He thought that the Protestants were a not organized minority as he thought that the Catholics were a majority. He had too much confidence in his armada but he didn’t know that The British Empire wasn’t afraid of it.

Although this was an important event, as I said before, this was one battle of the war and for everyone’s curiosity … The British Empire didn’t won the War. This war ended with a Peace Agreement favorable to Spain, signed by Elizabeth’s successor James I.