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- The Spanish armada plan
- The battle
- The impact on Spain
- Spain's king Philip seconds plan was that an armada of 130 ships would sail to the Netherlands, pick up 30,000 Spanish troops and invade England
- The impact on the English
- In 1588, Philip's Armada finally set sail. When the Armada anchored at Calais, the English used fire ships to scatter the Spanish fleet and then attack it at the Battle of Grave lines in July 1588. The Armada was forced to abandon its invasion attempt and was destroyed by storms, which Philip I called the Protestant Wind, whilst trying to sail home round the north of Scotland.Queen Elizabeth had a portrait painted to publicize her 'famous victory'.
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- The Spanish saw the invasion as a crusade and one that would stamp out the heresy of Protestantism in England.The failure of the invasion meant that Protestantism became more entrenched and less sympathetic to Catholicism. Indeed, in the aftermath of the Armada, Protestantism became part of the national identity. To be English was to be a Protestant and to reject Catholicism.
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- The defeat of the Armada was a major turning point in English history. It saved the throne of Elizabeth I and guaranteed English independence from Spain.The attempted Spanish invasion led to the adoption of an anti-Catholic discourse, known as Popery, and this was an important factor in English political life for over two centuries. The Armada did not end Spanish maritime supremacy, but it did lead to England becoming a formidable naval power. This allowed it to found colonies and trading companies in the early seventeenth century to lay the British Empire's foundation.
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