Sir Francis Drake's Attack On The Spanish Armada

This video explained everything very well and I like how they showed everything going on. In 1588 Spain was the largest super power on Earth. They assembled this super power to conquer England. Phillip the 2nd was the king of Spain, people in Spain were catholic and the job for every Catholic is to make sure Queen Elizabeth was killed. One of the biggest problems between Spain and England was religion but was not the only issue between the two. Phillip had to choose the leader of the Armada and according to the video “Phillip chose the most unlikely candidate” he chose the duke of Medina Sidonia. The duke he chose was on the richest men in Europe but was not considered that good in leading an army. “He tried everything to get out of the job by telling the king that he was seasick, even his own mother didn’t think he was up to the job.” Queen Elizabeth had spy’s that found out there was going to be an attack and she knew England’s only hope was in the navy. …show more content…
Sir Francis Drake was the best sailor in England and all the people loved him. “Drake and Howard decided to split and go different ways. Howards plan was to go out to sea while Drake would go along the coast. Their aim was to get to the west of the Spanish Armada.” They wanted to attack on the west but the wind when sailing is very hard to do and still is to this day. “At dawn on the 31st the Spanish Armada finally spotted the English Army.” The Spanish Armada noticed that the English Army was behind them and not in front of them like they expected. The Spanish Armada was twice the size of the English Army. There was at least 350 soldiers on each of the Spanish ships. The English Army shot over 200 cannon balls and did not sink a single Spanish ship. The only damage that was done to the Spanish armada was two of its ships collided. The English army was too far away to do any major