Spanish Armada

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The Spanish Armada (La Armada Invencible) was the battle fleet sent by Philip II of Spain in the summer of 1588 to the English Channel; its aim was to enable a Spanish army in Flanders to cross the channel and conquer England. The Spanish fleet was spotted off Land's End in Cornwall in July 1588, and as it passed along the English Channel its heavy galleons were harried by more mobile English vessels under the leadership of Charles Howard of Effingham, Sir Francis Drake, and Sir John Hawkins. The Armada moored off Calais on 6 August, and was attacked with fireships (burning vessels) by the English. The Armada scattered and was driven north into the North Sea, its mission unfulfilled. Winds and currents, and the waiting English, meant that the only way back to Spain for the Armada was round the north coast of Scotland. Many ships and lives were lost attempting to negotiate the unknown and treacherous coasts in stormy weather.