The threat of invasion by Spain loomed large for much of Elizabeth I's reign, culminating in the launch of the Armada in 1588. The failure of this attack enhanced the queen's popularity with her ...

A team of explorers and historians may have discovered a mass grave from the time of the Spanish Armada in Co Clare. The San Marcos Project, an initiative to locate sites related to the San Marcos, ...

Four hundred and twenty eight years ago, three Spanish Armada ships en route home from a failed attempt at invading England sank off the Sligo coast at Streedagh Beach, claiming more than 1,100 souls.

On August 8, 1588, the Spanish Armada was defeated. Beginning in the 1560s, Spain and England were involved in a power struggle. For many years, Spain had been getting rich by exploiting its colonies.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

When Queen Mary I died, and with her England's brief and bloody restoration of Catholicism, she was replaced with Elizabeth I, who reimposed Protestantism. But Philip II of Spain, Mary's widower, didn ...

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 ...