Sunday, August 7, 2011

Where did the battle of spanish armada take place?

There were several seperate fights following the Spanish fleet - the Armada - being first seen off the coast of Cornwall. Indecisive battles took place of Eddystone and the Isle of Portland. The Armada then moved eastwards along the English Channel towards Calais (after some galleys had returned towards Spain) were it regrouped and the English were able to use their fireships. The decisive battle was the Battle of Gravelines off the coast of Flanders. More detail here:- a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Armada" rel="nofollow"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Arm…/a including a map (which can be enlarged) showing the places where the various fights took place and the route of the Armada around the north of Scotland and west of Ireland, including sites of wrecks. Also a very useful discussion here:- a href="http://www.historybuff.com/library/refarmada2.html" rel="nofollow"http://www.historybuff.com/library/refar…/a

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