The drama is set in 1588 during the attack of the Spanish Armada. A young boy - Thomas Harte ... deck by the captain and told to prepare for battle. Thomas recalls how just two hours before ...

Leaders The Duke of Medina Sidonia led the Spanish fleet, but he was inexperienced in naval battle and so made some fatal errors in his planning and tactics. Planning The strength of the Spanish ...

When Queen Mary I died, and with her England's brief and bloody restoration of Catholicism, she was replaced with Elizabeth I, who reimposed Protestantism. But Philip II of Spain, Mary's widower ...

The battle of Tres de Abril As the sun rose over ... However, four days later, on April 7, the Spanish armada arrived from Manila aboard Don Juan de Austria, providing much-needed supplies to ...

The fleet sails again in July, and the first battle with the English comes on July ... The most interesting of these is a comparison of a possible Spanish landing in England in 1588—had the Armada ...