
The Spanish Armada: everything you wanted to know
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The Armada and the Battle of Calais
The english battered the armada, but they actually hadn't stopped it. They had to keep going by using stocks of gunpowder on those two spanish ships which were damaged and which they had captured. The idea of a national emergency was being wrapped up quite considerably. It was do or die,. if the er, the sp Spanish armada a could be a attacked in a set piece battle off the coast of holland. And it was, ok, sir sir. What plays out next? Well, again, at the armada was battered. By the time it came to the end game, the er the armadas was basically intact and still a vilable threat.
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