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The Defeat of Spanish Armada

Introduction

The formation of society, tribes, classes or civilization began as soon as the world was formed, and since then the mankind on this earth has always been in contention with each other, over numerous minor and major disputes. Most often these contentions brought the societies or tribes in the position, where they solely resorted to fight a battle against each other. As time passed and the world progressed, numerous developments took place in the world with respect to technology and advanced civilization. However, one thing remained the same that was the contentions between regions. In fact, nations engaged themselves in the race of attaining military might in order to consolidate their perspective in the minds of enemies. Amongst such conflicts, was the combat between Spanish and English forces?

The Defeat of the Spanish Armada

The Preface of Battle

The renowned incident of the defeat of Spanish Armada by English forces took place in the year 1588, when the Spanish king, the King Phillip II set out and discharged a large Spanish fleet, in order to successfully and forcefully invade and occupy the English land. However, the endeavors of King Phillip II and his Spanish armada proved out to be futile, when they confronted the mighty and powerful force of Great Britain, which was filled with zeal and ardor.

Not only did Queen Elizabeth I of Great Britain, revere this victory as a one of the most imperative achievements of her kingdom, but also this defeat of Spanish fleet assisted the downfall of Spanish empire. The armada bore both the political and religious implications. King Phillip II was a ruler of Roman Catholic Spain; the king was constantly confronting the up heave of the Protestants in Netherland, which began in 1566 and were assisted by the English Protestants. Even after numerous Endeavors, Phillip II was unable to curb the rising and revolt of the Dutch; therefore, he realized that in order to curb the Protestants' up heave in the Dutch land, it is highly imperative that England Protestant forces are tackled first. King Phillip was determined to set this religious rivalry, by converting the English Kingdom into Catholism (Padfield, p.108).

The arrangements of the capturing the English land had commenced. These arrangements constituted of harmonization between the sailing of the fleet from the shores of Spain and the army from Netherland, in order to carry out a concurrent attack on England. The weapons ...