Invincible Armada

The Spanish Armada, also called the Invincible Armada (infra), and more correctly La Armada Grande, was a fleet (I) intended to invade

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Rumours of an intended invasion of England by the Spaniards, with their so-called Invincible Armada, induced the merchants of London to fit out at their own expense twenty-six vessels of different sizes, which were placed under the command of Drake.

Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

He appointed for general of this his so called Invincible Armada, the duke of Medina Sidonia, who was employed on this occasion more for his high birth and exalted rank, than for any experience in sea affairs; for so many dukes, marquises, and earls had volunteered on this occasion, that it was feared they might repine if commanded by a person of lower quality than themselves.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784

And cutting all cables, hoisting any sails, the Invincible Armada goes lumbering wildly out to sea, every ship foul of her neighbor.

Westward Ho! 2007

Although called the “Invincible Armada, ” it was destroyed by a combination of English seamanship, Dutch reinforcements, and bad weather.

Armada, Spanish 2002

Never attacking the honest faith of any man, his satires are levelled at hypocrisy, never error, as when he says of the venerable tyrant, the master of the Invincible Armada, when he had received from the trembling secretary the assurance of the failure of the hope of

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Various

Tradition says the screen was made of oak from the timbers of the wrecked Invincible Armada; but this cannot be, inasmuch as it was set up a dozen years before the doomed squadron sailed out of Lisbon harbor.

Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 Various

The destruction of the Invincible Armada was not only a terrible blow to

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

Invincible Armada, the, from the German of Schiller, 143.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various

Frobisher -- with a wave of her hand as he passes down the Thames -- to try the northwest passage to India; Effingham, Drake, and Hawkins to drive off to the tender mercy of northern storms the Invincible Armada, and then to point out to the coming generations the distant fields of English enterprise.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee