Extract from a letter to English government giving details about the progress of the Armada (SP 94/3)
-How useful do you think this information would be to the English government?
The information included in the letter is very useful because it provides facts related to the Spanish Armada, such as the number of boats, soldiers, their locations...This way, they will be able to know if it was necessary to send more boats, crews, or whatever and be prepared for the attacs.
-How useful do you think this information would be to the English government?
The information included in the letter is very useful because it provides facts related to the Spanish Armada, such as the number of boats, soldiers, their locations...This way, they will be able to know if it was necessary to send more boats, crews, or whatever and be prepared for the attacs.
-Why were there more soldiers than sailors?
The reason of a huge difference between sailors and soldiers is that the main objective was a land invasion, so soldiers were more useful to fight, whereas sailors only had to carry them to England.
Lord Howard of Effingham, the Admiral of the English fleet, sent this report to Francis Walsingham 21 July (SP 12/212)
-How do you think the news that the Spanish Armada had been sighted was able to reach Lord Howard so quickly when he was at Plymouth, over a hundred miles away?
Because he received intelligence (someone who transmited relevant information) that there were a great number of Spanish ships.
-Why do you think Howard complained to Walsingham about the wind?
The main problem regarding the wind was that it was changing frequently, what made the fight very difficult for them.
-Howard says that the Spanish fleet was ‘soe strong’. What made it strong?
What made the Spanish Armada seem so strong was the great number of different kinds of sheeps that compond it: 120 sail sheeps whereof 4 were galleasses and many ships of greate burthen. An extract from a Spanish captain’s account of the events. He had survived after being shipwrecked on the Irish coast and was then interrogated by the English, but eventually returned home to Spain.
-The Spanish Armada fought the English fleet for two days without losing any ships. What happened next that changed this?
After two days in wich they hadn't lost any ship, they perceived in the night 6 ships falling upon them fired: by reason whereof they were driven to cut their Cables: at which time a great ship was burned among them.
-Why was it a good thing that the Spanish plans were stopped?
Because the captain who wrote the letter had been hold prisonerin the british coast after suffering a shipwrecked, so, if Spanish plans of attaking the british cities would have been done, he would have died.
-If you could change one thing to give the Spanish a better chance of winning what would it be and why?
If I had the chance, I would change those annoying winds and weather conditions that made the work of the Spanish Armada so difficult, to the point that people even said that was God who made the fleet be unsuccesful.
-The English celebrated their victory with a medal saying ‘God Blew and they were Scattered’ – how would the Spanish have explained their defeat? The medal represents the important part that the wind and weather in generall took in their battles, and that made the fight so difficult for the soldiers. This argument would habe been the one used by the Spanish in order to explain their fail in the battle.
The reason of a huge difference between sailors and soldiers is that the main objective was a land invasion, so soldiers were more useful to fight, whereas sailors only had to carry them to England.
Lord Howard of Effingham, the Admiral of the English fleet, sent this report to Francis Walsingham 21 July (SP 12/212)
-How do you think the news that the Spanish Armada had been sighted was able to reach Lord Howard so quickly when he was at Plymouth, over a hundred miles away?
Because he received intelligence (someone who transmited relevant information) that there were a great number of Spanish ships.
-Why do you think Howard complained to Walsingham about the wind?
The main problem regarding the wind was that it was changing frequently, what made the fight very difficult for them.
-Howard says that the Spanish fleet was ‘soe strong’. What made it strong?
What made the Spanish Armada seem so strong was the great number of different kinds of sheeps that compond it: 120 sail sheeps whereof 4 were galleasses and many ships of greate burthen. An extract from a Spanish captain’s account of the events. He had survived after being shipwrecked on the Irish coast and was then interrogated by the English, but eventually returned home to Spain.
An extract from a Spanish captain’s account of the events. He had survived after being shipwrecked on the Irish coast and was then interrogated by the English, but eventually returned home to Spain.
-The Spanish Armada fought the English fleet for two days without losing any ships. What happened next that changed this?
After two days in wich they hadn't lost any ship, they perceived in the night 6 ships falling upon them fired: by reason whereof they were driven to cut their Cables: at which time a great ship was burned among them.
-Why was it a good thing that the Spanish plans were stopped?
Because the captain who wrote the letter had been hold prisonerin the british coast after suffering a shipwrecked, so, if Spanish plans of attaking the british cities would have been done, he would have died.
-If you could change one thing to give the Spanish a better chance of winning what would it be and why?
If I had the chance, I would change those annoying winds and weather conditions that made the work of the Spanish Armada so difficult, to the point that people even said that was God who made the fleet be unsuccesful.
-The English celebrated their victory with a medal saying ‘God Blew and they were Scattered’ – how would the Spanish have explained their defeat? The medal represents the important part that the wind and weather in generall took in their battles, and that made the fight so difficult for the soldiers. This argument would habe been the one used by the Spanish in order to explain their fail in the battle.
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