The ink and watercolour maps are believed to have been created the year after the battle Hand-drawn, Elizabethan-era maps depicting the Spanish Armada have been saved for the nation after £ ...

The drama is set in 1588 during the attack of the Spanish Armada. A young boy - Thomas Harte ... deck by the captain and told to prepare for battle. Thomas recalls how just two hours before ...

Leaders The Duke of Medina Sidonia led the Spanish fleet, but he was inexperienced in naval battle and so made some fatal errors in his planning and tactics. Planning The strength of the Spanish ...

Hand-drawn, Elizabethan-era maps depicting the Spanish Armada are to go on public display for the first time. The 10 maps, believed to have been drawn the year after the famous battle of 1588 ...

When Queen Mary I died, and with her England's brief and bloody restoration of Catholicism, she was replaced with Elizabeth I, who reimposed Protestantism. But Philip II of Spain, Mary's widower ...