11/15/2023 Conflict at Sea: How the British Defeat of the Spanish Armada Changed the Face of Naval WarfareRead NowEngland sent a second Armada capturing Cádiz again in 1596, and in retaliation Spain sent three further armadas against England and Ireland in 1596, 1597, and 1601, but these ended in failure, mainly because of adverse weather. The English enjoyed a victory at Cádiz in 1587, and repelled the Spanish Armada in 1588, but then suffered heavy setbacks: the English Armada (1589), the Drake–Hawkins expedition (1595), and the Essex–Raleigh expedition (1597). It began with England's military expedition in 1585 to what was then the Spanish Netherlands under the command of the Earl of Leicester, in support of the Dutch rebellion against Spanish Habsburg rule. The war included much English privateering against Spanish ships, and several widely separated battles. The Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) was an intermittent conflict between the Habsburg Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of England.
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