Elizabeth I went to Tilbury, gave her Spanish Armada Speech and sent her troops on their way.Storms forced the fleet to stay put at La Coruña until July. Finally, they reached Lizard Point on July 29 (July 19
The cause of this their unreasonable distrust, as I do take it, was the fresh remembrance of the great wrongs that they had done to old Master William Hawkins, of Plymouth, in the voyage he made four or five years before, whenas they did both break their promise, and murdered many of...
atPlymouth, dead to leeward, but by a neat maneuver was able to get to the windward, or upwind, side of the enemy (i.e., west of the Armada, given the prevailing west winds) and hence gain the tacticalinitiative. In three encounters (off Plymouth, July 31 [July 21]; off Portland ...
The larger part of the English fleet was then at Plymouth, dead to leeward, but by a neat maneuver was able to get to the windward, or upwind, side of the enemy (i.e., west of the Armada, given the prevailing west winds) and hence gain the tactical initiative. In three encounters ...
atPlymouth, dead to leeward, but by a neat maneuver was able to get to the windward, or upwind, side of the enemy (i.e., west of the Armada, given the prevailing west winds) and hence gain the tacticalinitiative. In three encounters (off Plymouth, July 31 [July 21]; off Portland ...