The following year Philip II of Spain launched a great fleet of ships, known as the Spanish Armada, to try and overthrow Elizabeth and restore Catholicism. Always a popular monarch, and a ...

Previously, scholars believed Cecil, whose official role was secretary of state to Elizabeth ... about a second Spanish naval attack in the 1590s, following the Spanish Armada of 1588, led ...

Elizabeth I is one of England's greatest monarchs – perhaps the greatest. Her forces defeated the Spanish Armada and saved England from invasion, she reinstated Protestantism and forged an ...

seeking to depose Elizabeth and bring Protestant England back into the Catholic fold. The discovery of the letters between the Duke of Medina Sidonia, Commander of the Armada and his second in ...

The English sent fireships – old ships loaded with pretty much anything that would burn – among the Spanish. The Armada broke formation ... was a huge boon for Elizabeth, England and the ...

The English defeated the Spanish Armada in an impressive victory, which was commemorated with Elizabeth I’s Armada Portrait. After days of cannon fire back and forth, the English decided to send ...

Readers who want a fast-paced account of how Elizabeth’s navy, led by such captains as Drake, Howard, and Frobisher, managed to defeat the Spanish Armada in battles fought in the English Channel, ...

A West Country author is set to explore the "hidden story" of the Spanish Armada's defeat in a talk in Weymouth.