It provides an important rebalancing of what proved a long war of attrition.
Gorrochategui's marvellous account of their counter-armada the following year to destroy the Spanish threat and liberate Portugal reveals an equal if not bigger disaster.
It turns out that the famous Armada of 1588 was more propaganda achievement than decisive English victory. This book clearly and in a rigorously documented fashion shows how the defeat of the English Armada counterbalanced that of the Spanish, frustrating England's intention of seizing Philip II's American empire and changing the tide of the war.Īt last the real history of the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585-1604. It reconstructs the military operations day by day for the first time, taking apart the established notion that, with the defeat of the Spanish Armada, England achieved maritime supremacy and the decay of Spain began. This book presents a full-scale account of an event which has been neglected for more than four centuries. A great deal of attention has been dedicated to the former and precious little to the latter. During the year between July 1588, when the Spanish Armada set sail from Spain and July 1589, when the survivors of the English counterpart of this fleet, the little-known English Armada, reached port in England, two of history's worst naval catastrophes took place. A day-by-day account of the disastrous English Counter Armada of 1589, the greatest naval disaster in English history, and its causes and consequences.
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