Armada

by Peter Padfield

Armada


At a glance:

Any historical event is an impossibly complex topic; assessing the forces that “produce” a specific occurrence is largely a matter of exclusion as much as inclusion. When the scope of the event is enormously large itself, when the import of the occurrence is such that it holds a place in almost every historical survey offered to students from elementary school through college, the event tends to take on a life, and its effects a standardized assessment, of its own.

Such is the case with the defeat, in the year 1588, of the Spanish Armada. Excepting 1492 and 1776,...

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