The following year Philip II of Spain launched a great fleet of ships, known as the Spanish Armada, to try and overthrow Elizabeth and restore Catholicism. Always a popular monarch, and a ...

Elizabeth I is one of England's greatest monarchs – perhaps the greatest. Her forces defeated the Spanish Armada and saved England from invasion, she reinstated Protestantism and forged an ...

Previously, scholars believed Cecil, whose official role was secretary of state to Elizabeth ... about a second Spanish naval attack in the 1590s, following the Spanish Armada of 1588, led ...

seeking to depose Elizabeth and bring Protestant England back into the Catholic fold. The discovery of the letters between the Duke of Medina Sidonia, Commander of the Armada and his second in ...

A shocking theory suggests that Queen Elizabeth I may have actually been ... era and she was also a warrior who defeated the Spanish Armada. But sceptics believe all is not as it seems as it ...

The English sent fireships – old ships loaded with pretty much anything that would burn – among the Spanish. The Armada broke formation ... was a huge boon for Elizabeth, England and the ...

Readers who want a fast-paced account of how Elizabeth’s navy, led by such captains as Drake, Howard, and Frobisher, managed to defeat the Spanish Armada in battles fought in the English Channel, ...