Spanish Armada

(noun)

A Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña in August 1588 with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England. The strategic aim was to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I of England and the Tudor establishment of Protestantism in England.

Related Terms

  • Golden Age
  • consanguinity
  • Spanish Golden Age
  • DOMESTIC AFFAIRS
  • Catholic League
  • jure uxoris
  • Morisco
  • Eighty Years' War
  • Church Settlement
  • Roanoke Colon
  • Roanoke Colony
  • Anglo-Spanish War
  • French Catholic League
  • Religious Settlement

Examples of Spanish Armada in the following topics:

  • Philip II and the Spanish Armada

    • He engaged the Spanish architect, Juan Bautista de Toledo, to be his collaborator.
    • This conflict consumed much Spanish expenditure during the later 16th century.
    • In 1588, the English defeated Philip's Spanish Armada, thwarting his planned invasion of the country to reinstate Catholicism.
    • Two further Spanish armadas were sent in 1596 and 1597 but were frustrated in their objectives mainly because of adverse weather and poor planning.
    • Spanish forces and subsidies were withdrawn.
  • The Spanish Habsburgs

    • The Habsburg years were also a Spanish Golden Age of cultural efflorescence.
    • The Spanish Empire abroad became the source of Spanish wealth and power in Europe.
    • A devout Catholic, Philip also known for organized a huge naval expedition against Protestant England in 1588, known usually as the Spanish Armada, which was unsuccessful, mostly due to storms and grave logistical problems.
    • Despite these problems, the growing inflow of New World silver from mid-16th century, the justified military reputation of the Spanish infantry and even the navy quickly recovering from its Armada disaster, made Spain the leading European power, a novel situation of which its citizens were only just becoming aware.
    • Explain why the Spanish Habsburgs grew increasingly feeble as a family.
  • Elizabeth I and English Patriotism

    • The treaty marked the beginning of the Anglo-Spanish War, which lasted until the Treaty of London in 1604.
    • Further, English ships began a policy of piracy against Spanish trade and threatened to plunder the great Spanish treasure ships coming from the new world.
    • In 1588, he sent a fleet, the Spanish Armada, across the English Channel.
    • The Spanish were forced into a retreat, and the overwhelming majority of the Armada was destroyed by the harsh weather.
    • In 1562, Elizabeth sent privateers Hawkins and Drake to seize booty from Spanish and Portuguese ships off the coast of West Africa.
  • Spanish Rule in Mexico

  • The Spanish Conquest

    • Although the Inca ruler was mostly cooperative in captivity, and was finally baptized, the Spanish killed him on August 29, 1533, essentially ending the potential for larger Inca attacks on Spanish forces.
    • The Inca continued to revolt against totalitarian Spanish rule until the year 1572.
    • The Spanish named this vast region the Viceroyalty of Peru and set up a Spanish system of rule, which effectively suppressed any type of uprising from local communities.
    • The Spanish also enforced heavy manual labor taxes, called mita, on the local populations.
    • The Spanish also enforced heavy taxes on agriculture, metals, and other fine goods.
  • The Silo D'Oro

    • The Spanish Golden Age (Spanish: Siglo de Oro) is a period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain, coinciding with the political rise and decline of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty.
    • The Spanish Golden Age (Spanish: Siglo de Oro, "Golden Century") is a period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain, coinciding with the political rise and decline of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty.
    • Luis de Morales, one of the leading exponents of Spanish mannerist painting, retained a distinctly Spanish style in his work, reminiscent of medieval art.
    • Spanish rule of Naples was important for making connections between Italian and Spanish art, with many Spanish administrators bringing Italian works back to Spain.
    • Identify some works of art from the Spanish Siglo De Oro
  • The Question of Spanish Succession

    • It allocated Spain, the Low Countries, and the Spanish colonies to the Archduke.
    • French diplomacy, however, secured Bavaria, Portugal, and Savoy as Franco-Spanish allies.
    • Europe before the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession, (c. 1700), source: Wikipedia.
    • Europe after the War of the Spanish Succession (1714), source: Wikipedia.
    • Describe the reasons why there was conflict over who should take the Spanish throne.
  • William of Orange and the Grand Alliance

    • Louis and William sought to solve the problem of the Spanish inheritance through negotiation, based on the principle of partition (at first without prior reference to the Spanish or Austrian courts), to take effect after the death of Charles II.
    • Unexpectedly, Charles II willed all Spanish territories to Philip, a grandson of Louis XIV.
    • The French conveniently ignored the Second Partition Treaty and claimed the entire Spanish inheritance.
    • However, before the War of the Spanish Succession was even declared, William died.
    • Explain William's stake in the War of the Spanish Succession and the goals of the Grand Alliance.
  • The Peace of Utrecht

    • The Treaty of Utrecht, which initiated the end of the War of the Spanish succession, strengthened the balance of power in Europe by securing two major goals: Louis XIV's acknowledgement of the Protestant succession in England and safeguards to ensure that the French and Spanish thrones remained separate.
    • The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was a European conflict triggered by the death of the last Habsburg King of Spain, Charles II, in 1700.
    • The Dutch received their restricted barrier in the Spanish Netherlands and a share of the trade in the region with Britain.
    • However, the War of the Spanish Succession brought to an end a long period of major conflict in western Europe: the partition of the Spanish Monarchy had secured the balance of power, and the conditions imposed at Utrecht helped to regulate the relations between the major European powers over the coming century.
    • First edition of the the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht between Great Britain and Spain in Spanish (left) and a later edition in Latin and English.
  • Spanish Exploration

    • After Columbus, the Spanish colonization of the Americas was led by a series of soldier-explorers called conquistadors.
    • Of equal importance was the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
    • From there, the goods were transshipped across Mexico to the Spanish treasure fleets, for shipment to Spain.
    • The Spanish trading post of Manila was established to facilitate this trade in 1572.
    • An anachronous map of the Spanish Empire; Source: Wikipedia by Trasamundo.
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