England vs Spain
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- Created on: 31-05-16 13:49
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- England vs Spain
- The Spanish Armada left Spain on the 22nd July 1588
- A fast sailing boat spotted them and went to warm the English
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- 1. 130 ships set out, sailing packed together in a crescent shape, which the English would find hard to attack
- 2. The Spanish are spotted off Cornwall on 29th July and beacons are lit on hilltops to warn people of a possible invasion.
- The English Navy chases the Spaniards for over a week but cannot sink a single Spanish ship.
- 3, The Spanish arrive in Calais, on 6th August.
- They wait for Spanish soldiers to join them but the soldiers are delayed
- 4. Sir Francis Drake attacks the Spanish ships with the weapon they fear the most - fireships.
- Eight old ships are filled with straw, gunpowder, tar and barrels of pig fat and then set alight.
- They act like floating bombs and drift towards the Spanish, who panic when they see them.
- Eight old ships are filled with straw, gunpowder, tar and barrels of pig fat and then set alight.
- 5. Frightened by the fireships, the Spanish scatter in ones and twos, all over the North Sea.
- The fast English ships attack again and again.
- 6. The Spaniards flee.
- A sudden storm batters their ships as they struggle home around Scotland and Ireland.
- 7. Nearly every Spanish ship is damaged.
- The sailors starve as their food goes mouldy.
- Injured men die when their wounds become infected.
- As their ships sink, some sailors manage to stagger ashore, only to be attacked by the Scots and Irish.
- Injured men die when their wounds become infected.
- The sailors starve as their food goes mouldy.
- The Spanish Armada left Spain on the 22nd July 1588
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