Spanish Armada

Examples of Spanish Armada in the following topics:

• The British Empire

  • British exploration of the New World centered on searching for a Northwest Passage through the continent and plundering Spanish ships.
  • With the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, England replaced Spain as the dominant world power.
  • This led to the gradual decline of Spanish influence in the New World and the widening of English imperial interests.
  • He was later knighted for his service in repelling the Spanish Armada in 1588.
  • Elizabeth I awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581, and he was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588.

• Philip II and the Spanish Armada

  • He engaged the Spanish architect, Juan Bautista de Toledo, to be his collaborator.
  • This conflict consumed much Spanish expenditure during the later 16th century.
  • In 1588, the English defeated Philip's Spanish Armada, thwarting his planned invasion of the country to reinstate Catholicism.
  • Two further Spanish armadas were sent in 1596 and 1597 but were frustrated in their objectives mainly because of adverse weather and poor planning.
  • Spanish forces and subsidies were withdrawn.

• The Spanish–American War

  • The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States.
  • The Spanish-American War was swift and decisive.
  • Catching the entire Spanish armada at anchor in Manila Bay, he destroyed it without losing an American life.
  • The war also effectively ended the Spanish Empire.
  • Spain retained only a handful of overseas holdings: Spanish West Africa, Spanish Guinea, Spanish Sahara, Spanish Morocco and the Canary Islands.

• The Cuban War of Independence

  • The final three months of the conflict escalated to become the Spanish–American War.
  • Although it remained Spanish territory politically, Cuba started to depend on the United States economically.
  • By the end of 1897, with Spanish troops being shipped in to fight, the revolutionaries were far outnumbered.
  • The Spanish-American War was swift and decisive.
  • Catching the entire Spanish armada at anchor in Manila Bay, he destroyed it without losing an American life.

• The Spanish Habsburgs

  • The Habsburg years were also a Spanish Golden Age of cultural efflorescence.
  • The Spanish Empire abroad became the source of Spanish wealth and power in Europe.
  • A devout Catholic, Philip also known for organized a huge naval expedition against Protestant England in 1588, known usually as the Spanish Armada, which was unsuccessful, mostly due to storms and grave logistical problems.
  • Despite these problems, the growing inflow of New World silver from mid-16th century, the justified military reputation of the Spanish infantry and even the navy quickly recovering from its Armada disaster, made Spain the leading European power, a novel situation of which its citizens were only just becoming aware.
  • Explain why the Spanish Habsburgs grew increasingly feeble as a family.

• Elizabeth I and English Patriotism

  • The treaty marked the beginning of the Anglo-Spanish War, which lasted until the Treaty of London in 1604.
  • Further, English ships began a policy of piracy against Spanish trade and threatened to plunder the great Spanish treasure ships coming from the new world.
  • In 1588, he sent a fleet, the Spanish Armada, across the English Channel.
  • The Spanish were forced into a retreat, and the overwhelming majority of the Armada was destroyed by the harsh weather.
  • In 1562, Elizabeth sent privateers Hawkins and Drake to seize booty from Spanish and Portuguese ships off the coast of West Africa.

• European Empires in North America

  • The Spanish, English, and French were the most powerful nations to establish empires in the new lands.
  • Colonial expansion under the Spanish Empire was initiated by the Spanish conquistadors and developed by the Monarchy of Spain through its administrators and missionaries.
  • The Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon traveled to the New World on Columbus' second voyage.
  • With the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, England replaced Spain as the dominant world power.
  • Evaluate the goals of Spanish, British, and French exploration in the Americas

• Spanish Rule in Mexico

• The Spanish Conquest

  • The Spanish also captured Atahualpa and kept him hostage, demanding ransoms of silver and gold.
  • Although the Inca ruler was mostly cooperative in captivity, and was finally baptized, the Spanish killed him on August 29, 1533, essentially ending the potential for larger Inca attacks on Spanish forces.
  • The Inca continued to revolt against totalitarian Spanish rule until the year 1572.
  • The Spanish named this vast region the Viceroyalty of Peru and set up a Spanish system of rule, which effectively suppressed any type of uprising from local communities.
  • The Spanish also enforced heavy manual labor taxes, called mita, on the local populations.

• The Spanish-American War

  • The Spanish–American War was a three-month conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States.
  • Revolts against Spanish rule had been endemic in Cuba for decades; these revolts were of great interest to Americans.
  • With two obsolete Spanish squadrons sunk in Santiago de Cuba and Manila Bay, and a third more modern fleet recalled home to protect the Spanish coasts, Madrid vied for peace.
  • Liberators of Cuba, soldiers of the 10th Cavalry after the Spanish-American War.
  • Analyze the major events and contributing factors of the Spanish-American War