The Spanish Armada

by Hutchinson, Robert

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  Mary Queen of Scots by François Clouet, c.1558-60. In 1564, during a visit by the Scots Ambassador, Elizabeth is said to have picked up this miniature and kissed it. She changed her mind about her cousin four years later when Mary Queen of Scots fled to England. With Mary’s viable claim to the crown of England, she became an inveterate conspirator against Elizabeth.

  Philip II of Spain, painted by an unknown artist,
after 1580. Deposing Elizabeth and the conquest of heretic England became a holy crusade.

  Don Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, Seventh Duke of Medina Sidonia, was the reluctant commander of the Armada following the death of Santa Cruz from typhus in February 1588.

  Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma, was to bring the Spanish invasion forces across from Flanders in narrow, flat-bottom barges. He never sailed.

  Pope Sixtus V. Always counting his ducats, he reluctantly agreed to subsidise the Armada, but stipulated that not a penny should be paid before the first Spanish soldier set foot on English soil. He was also a great admirer of Elizabeth I, much to everyone’s discomfort.

  Elizabeth’s new ‘race built’ warships had sleek lines which enabled greater manoeuvrability during naval battles, emphasised here by the superimposed image of a fish.

  Howard’s flagship Ark Royal, purchased from Sir Walter Raleigh to clear some of his debts to the crown.

  Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth’s secretary of state and spymaster, who dismissed early reports of preparations for the Armada as mere ‘Spanish brag’.

  Dorset warning beacons, showing their construction.

  Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Elizabeth’s lord treasurer, who struggled to find the money to pay for England’s defence.

  Charles Howard, Second Baron Effingham. He was one of Mary Queen of Scots’ judges at Fotheringay and two years later, as Lord High Admiral, pursued the Spanish Armada up the English Channel and fought them in the Battle of Gravelines on 8 August 1588.

  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.