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The Voyage of the Armada: The Spanish Story

By David , Howarth

Book information

Year
2012
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
32 MB (33630899 bytes)
Pages
\276
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00

Description

Overview: In May of 1588, on the order of Spain's King Philip, 30,000 soldiers and sailors armed with arquebus and musket set out to sea. A larger fleet had never before been assembled. In the Voyage of the Armada, David Howarth brilliantly conveys the drama of the Spanish Armada's progress and brings to life the personalities of the men who influenced its course, from the dogmatic and irrational Philip II to Don Juan Martinez de Recalde to Don Pedro and Don Diego de Valdes, who were cousins but also bitter enemies, to the Spanish soldiers and sailors who unquestioningly ventured into unknown seas to confront their fates.

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