AN officer of the American navy has lately aroused widespread interest in the influence of sea power upon history. For England the subject has a very special significance. Supremacy at sea is the only ...
In the Western consciousness, there are two main narratives of Spain’s attempted invasion of England in 1588. The first and most dominant in the Anglophone world can be characterized as the Protestant ...
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, ...
On Sept. 21, 1588, a savage storm lashed the western coast of Ireland. As the gale intensified, three bulky ships ran aground on the sands of Streedagh Strand, north of Sligo. Part of a formidable ...
THE ARMADA (443 pp.)—Garreft Mattingly—Houghton, Miffin ($6). Before the 130-odd ships that were the core of the Spanish Armada had been provisioned, searched for contraband women, and set creaking ...
More than four centuries after the famous English privateer Sir Francis Drake raided the Spanish port of Cádiz, archaeologists have identified the remains of one of his victims. Lying beneath the mud ...
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