Post by Radrook Admin on Jun 14, 2024 20:17:17 GMT -5
Failure of the English Counter Armada
There is a lot of talk about how the Spanish Armada failed in its objectives to transport an Army to invade England. Yet, nothing is ever mentioned about how England's counter armada that followed it also failed.
The failure of the English Armada is barely acknowledged by the British historiography, as explained by David Keys:
The English Armada was larger than the Spanish, and from many points of view it was an even greater disaster. This fact, however, is completely overlooked. It is never mentioned in the history courses taught in British schools and a majority of British history teachers have never even heard of it.
— Gran Bretaña olvida su gran desastre naval mientras recupera restos de la Armada Invencible (in Spanish), ABC, 6 August 2001, p. 38
Nevertheless, even the "landmark" 11th Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1911) does mention, if only in passing, that "the attempt on Portugal in 1589 under Drake and Norris proved a complete failure."
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