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It’s August 8th, 1588: an imposing fleet, led by the Duke Medina Sidonia,
threatens the English coast. Philip II, King of
Spain, sent it to give a lesson to Elizabeth Tudor, Queen of England for the
past thirty years. The capital execution of
Marie Stuart, beheaded in 1587, must be revenged! (Or is it because of the
support given in Europe to the Dutch
Protestants and to the French Huguenots? Or maybe because of the regular beating
that the Spanish galleons get – on
their way back from South America, loaded with gold – from the pirates patented
by the English Crown? Who
knows? Anyway.) These 30,000 men on 130 ships have been named “The Invincible
Armada” : will they succeed in
their mission? Things have gone sour, so far, in the Channel. The Spanish, on
heavy ships - unfit for sea fighting, have
gone ashore on the sand banks of Calais and Flanders, and they have lost quite a
lot of their forces. English ships are
faster and better manoeuvred, and tackle them closely aided by the wind. Follow
us, let us see how the Englishmen are
getting ready to defend their holy land!
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