Why did the Armada fail
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- Created on: 10-03-19 10:20
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- Why Did the Armada fail?
- The Armada was badly supplied
- Food was stored in barrels made out of inferior wood
- Because of Drake's raid on Cadiz
- This meant the new ones had to be made quickly
- This lead to food rotting quickly
- Because of Drake's raid on Cadiz
- The food was of poor quality
- This lead to the Spanish to be tired and not as alert
- Food was stored in barrels made out of inferior wood
- Poor comunication between Spanish and Dutch fleets
- It took a week for the Spanish to communicate with there dutch troops
- This meant the Armada needed to wait in Calais
- It took a week for the Spanish to communicate with there dutch troops
- English navel tactics
- English commanders Admiral Lord Howard and Sir Francis Drake
- The
English kept their distance from the Spanish ships
- meaning the Spanish couldn’t use their favoured technique of using grappling hooks to climb on to boats and use hand to hand combat.
- Used fire
ships to scare and scatter the Spanish
- causes them to be weak as the Spanish mainly used a tightknit formation.
- Elizabeth listened to expert advice
- The Treasurer of the navy told Elizabeth they need warships which were fast and easily manoeuvrable
- Weather
- The
English used the wind direction to their advantage
- English navel tactics
- English commanders Admiral Lord Howard and Sir Francis Drake
- The
English kept their distance from the Spanish ships
- meaning the Spanish couldn’t use their favoured technique of using grappling hooks to climb on to boats and use hand to hand combat.
- Used fire
ships to scare and scatter the Spanish
- causes them to be weak as the Spanish mainly used a tightknit formation.
- English navel tactics
- Delays in setting sail and bad weather led to the spanish being at sea for 10 weeks before they reached the channel
- This lead to the Spanish to be tired and not as alert
- The
English used the wind direction to their advantage
- Superior English ships
- The English had galleons
- The canons
also had a much smaller recoil
- This meant the English could reload and fire them much quicker
- But as the English only had 24 galleons was not the only reason the Armada failed.
- Galleons were faster and much easier to manoeuvre
- The Treasurer of the navy told Elizabeth they need warships which were fast and easily manoeuvrable
- The canons
also had a much smaller recoil
- The English had galleons
- The Armada was badly supplied
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