The Spanish Armada (62 page)

Authors: Robert Hutchinson

Tags: #History, #Europe, #Great Britain, #Military, #Naval, #General

BOOK: The Spanish Armada

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Sir Francis Drake. The vice-admiral of the English fleet was a maverick and endangered Howard’s campaign against the Armada by leaving his station to
pursue mystery ships, the next morning, claiming the stricken Spanish ship Rosario as a prize.

The action off Plymouth on 31 July 1588. Howard’s pinnace
Disdain
is shown firing her ‘defiance’ at the middle of the
Armada’s
lunula
, or crescent formation, off Dodman Point, Cornwall. This detail is from an engraving, one of a set by Augustin Ryther in 1590 to illustrate Petruccio
Ubaldino’s account of the naval battles.

Fighting off Portland and the Isle of Wight on 2 August 1588. Detail showing the Spanish galleasses attacking Frobisher’s squadron, seemingly becalmed
off Portland Bill.

Howard sends eight fireships in an attack on the anchored Armada off Calais, 7 August 1588 (Aert Anthonisz, 1590). In the left foreground, a Spanish
squadron flagship is engaged with an English ship, which has a galleass astern of her. In reality, the English fleet did not follow up the fireship attack, as shown by this painting.

The Battle of Gravelines, 8 August 1588.

An English chart by Augustin Ryther, 1588, showing the course home taken by the Spanish Armada.

Map of Northern Ireland, 1589, with the positions of four Armada wrecks marked with the word ‘Spanish’. One is unidentified.

Left-hand panel of a triptych in St Faith’s Church, Gaywood, Norfolk, showing Elizabeth’s arrival at Tilbury and inscribed: ‘Blessed be
the great God of my salvation’.

‘Armada Portrait’ of Elizabeth I, showing behind her the attack of her fireships on the Armada and the Spanish ships being wrecked by the
‘Protestant Wind’.

Licence to William Browne, gunner in the barque
Hazard
of Faversham, Kent, allowing him to beg in all churches for one year, signed by Lord High
Admiral Howard.

The Somerset House conference on 19 August 1604 that produced the Treaty of London, ending the nineteen-year Anglo-Spanish war.

INDEX

Acuña, Jusepe de,
ref 1

Acuña, Don Pedro de,
ref 1
,
ref 2

Adam, Robert,
ref 1

Advice
(English pinnace),
ref 1

Aid
(English ship),
ref 1

Alba, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of: in Spanish Netherlands,
ref 1
; Mary Queen of Scots appeals to,
ref 1
; agents in London,
ref 1

Alençon, François, Duke of,
ref 1

Allen, Cardinal William,
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4
,
ref 5
,
ref 6
;
Admonition to the Nobility and People of England and Ireland Concerning the Present Wars
,
ref 1
,
ref 2

Alvarez, Captain Vicente,
ref 1

America: proposed Catholic settlement in,
ref 1

Amésquita, Carlos de,
ref 1

Andrada, Manuel de (‘David’),
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3

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