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Author Wernham, R. B. (Richard Bruce), 1906-1999

Title The return of the armadas : the last years of the Elizabethan war against Spain, 1595-1603 / R.B. Wernham
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 452 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
Contents Prologue: 1593-1594 -- The year 1595 -- Drake and Hawkins's last voyage, 1595-1596 -- Cadiz or Calais? -- The treaties of Greenwich and the Triple Alliance -- The Cadiz expedition gets away -- The sack of Cadiz -- The aftermath of Cadiz -- The 1596 Armada -- Plans and preparations for 1597 -- Gales and frustrations -- The islands voyage and the 1597 Armada -- The parting of the ways -- The peace of Vervins -- After Vervins -- Cumberland and van der Does -- The 'Invisible Armada' and trouble with neutrals -- An army for Ireland -- Essex in Ireland -- Conference at Boulogne -- Mountjoy in Ireland, 1600 -- The Essex Rising and the 1601 Parliament -- Ostend and Kinsale -- Last encounters -- Epilogue
Summary This study explains how major events in the last years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, such as Spain's renewed ambitions in Northern Europe and the outbreak of rebellion in Ireland, had a lasting impact on the policies of the English government
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Spain. Armada -- History
SUBJECT Spain. Armada fast
Subject Anglo-Spanish War.
Armada.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History, Naval -- Tudors, 1485-1603. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056844
Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056783
Spain -- History, Naval -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88003099
Spain -- History, Naval -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88002295
Subject Great Britain
Spain
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Naval history
Form Electronic book
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