List of Illustrations 1. Introduction Part I: The Spanish Armada 2. The Vicious Circle 3. In Corunna 4. In the Channel 5. Carrick na Spania Part II: The English Armada 6. Preparations in England 7. Preparations in Corunna 8. The Landing 9. The Capture of Pescadería 10. To the Walls 11. The Oath 12. The First Attacks 13. The Mined Turret 14. María Pita 15. San Antón and El Burgo 16. Full Sail to Lisbon 17. Heading South 18. The Landing in Peniche 19. The March Begins 20. At Loures 21. In the Outskirts of Lisbon 22. Encamisada 23. The Awakening of São Jorge 24. The Trojan Horses 25. Counteroffensive 26. Turning Point 27. Two Banners 28. Essex, Cárdenas and the Windmills 29. To the Sea 30. Naval Combat 31. Port-of-call in Vigo 32. Return to England Part III: The War Continues 33. A Glove, a Lion and El Dorado 34. The End of Drake and Hawkins 35. Cádiz and the North Wind 36. Crimson Taffeta 37. Peace Epilogue Bibliography Index
A day-by-day account of the disastrous English Counter Armada of 1589, the greatest naval disaster in English history, and its causes and consequences.
Luis Gorrochategui Santos teaches philosophy at IES Francisco Aguiar, Spain. He is the author of several books in Spanish including La Guerra de la Sirena (2002), Contra Armada (2011) and La Rebelión de los PIGS (2013), as well as numerous articles.
For writing a history brimming with these kinds of details there
can be no question that Santos has succeeded in publishing a
thorough study on a significant sixteenth-century topic that has
generally been ignored.
*Sixteenth Century Journal*
[An] extremely enjoyable and thoroughly recommended addition to the
literature on the subject in English.
*Canadian Journal of History*
This is a well-written and well-researched account of an all too
often overlooked event. Santos makes great use of a wide variety of
primary and secondary materials. The impressive detail on the size
and strength of individual ships along with official
decision-making, military strategy, tactics, and engagements will
appeal to scholars and public audiences interested in early modern
military history and Anglo-Spanish relations … The English Armada
is an important addition to current historiography on the Spanish
and English Armadas because it offers an alternative to the
typically English version of events.
*H-War*
An important contribution to our understanding of this, the ‘other’
armada.
*Bulletin of Spanish Studies*
Santos is the first to use Spanish and Portuguese sources as well
as English accounts to paint a more accurate picture of what really
happened … [The] best available account of the disastrous English
Armada of 1589.
*Michigan War Studies Review*
This monograph dedicated to the Counter-Armada is the first to give
a full account of the expedition, and represents an eye-opening
contribution to the study of the Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604)
historiography.
*Reviews in History*
At last the real history of the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585-1604. It
turns out that the famous Armada of 1588 was more propaganda
achievement than decisive English victory. Gorrochategui’s
marvellous account of their counter-armada the following year to
destroy the Spanish threat and liberate Portugal reveals an equal
if not bigger disaster. It provides an important rebalancing of
what proved a long war of attrition.
*Hiram Morgan, Senior Lecturer, University College Cork,
Ireland*
A profound and detailed study of enormous merit and scope about an
historic event that has given rise to much controversy. As the
author states in his illuminating epilogue, the success of the
English expedition would have made it possible for the English and
the Dutch to gain access to the Spanish crown’s territories in the
Americas, but its failure enabled Spain to retain them. That is why
it was an event of such importance. This engaging and easy-to-read
work describes very compellingly a decisive episode of the
period.
*José Cervera Pery, Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of
History, Spain*
Essential reading for those who love history or who are
professionally engaged in it. Using primary sources Gorrochategui
Santos constructs and describes the operations, the rifts and the
battles with accuracy in a format which is engaging and coherent.
It will certainly make some people feel embarrassed as it returns
to historical memory events that should not be concealed.
*Antonio Luis Gómez Beltrán, author of La Invencible y su leyenda
negra (2013)*
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