HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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King Philip II
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King Charlemagne
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Henry VIII
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Ignatius of Loyola
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Detailed explanation-1: -’Great and Most Fortunate Navy’) was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by the Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aristocrat without previous naval experience appointed by Philip II of Spain.
Detailed explanation-2: -Following the recent death of Spain’s famous admiral Santa Cruz however, Philip had somehow made the strange decision to appoint the Duke of Medina Sidonia to command the Armada.
Detailed explanation-3: -Philip II had one simple aim, which as to replace Elizabeth and restore Catholicism back in England under a new Catholic monarch. The plan through which he was to achieve this included 130 ships together with roughly 30, 000 soldiers.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1588, he sent an armada to invade Protestant England, with the strategic aim of overthrowing Elizabeth I and re-establishing Catholicism there, but his fleet was defeated in a skirmish at Gravelines (northern France) and then destroyed by storms as it circled the British Isles to return to Spain.