The return of the armadas : the later years of the Elizabethan war against Spain, 1595-1603

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The return of the armadas : the later years of the Elizabethan war against Spain, 1595-1603

R.B. Wernham

Oxford University Press, 1994

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The defeat of the Spanish Armada did not put an end to Spanish sea power, nor to Spain's ambitions in northern Europe. By the mid-1590s Spain had recovered from the disaster of 1588, and the renewed naval wars together with the outbreak of rebellion in Ireland from the principal themes of this book. R B Wernham sets out to examine these major events of the last years of the Queen Elizabeth's reign and to assess their impact on English policy. Professor Wernham shows how much of the impetus in foreign policy derived from the Earl of Essex, whose personal ambition and practical incompetence brought frustration and danger, and ultimately led him through rebellion to the Scaffold. It was left to Mountjoy in Ireland, to Leveson and a new generation of sea commanders, and above all to Robert Cecil, to bring war and rebellion to a reasonably satisfactory conclusion. The Return of the Armadas is a superbly integrated and lucidly written study in grand strategy by a leading historian of Elizabethan affairs.

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  • The years 1593-1590
  • the year 1595
  • Drake and Hawkins' last voyage
  • Cadiz or Calais?
  • the Treaties of Greenwich and the Triple Alliance
  • the Cadiz expedition gets away
  • the sack of Cadiz
  • the aftermath of Cadiz
  • the 1596 Armada
  • plans and preparations for 1597
  • gales and frustrations
  • the islands voyage and the 1557 Armada
  • the parting of the ways
  • the peace of Vervins
  • after Vervins
  • Cumberland and Van der Does
  • the invisible Armada and trouble with neutrals
  • an army for Ireland
  • Essex in Ireland
  • conference at Boulogne
  • Mountjoy in Ireland, 1600
  • the Essex Rising and the 1601 Parliament
  • Ostend and Kinsale
  • last encounters.

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