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Sinking of Invincible Spanish Armada
American Minute ^ | May 20, 2019 | Bill Federer

Posted on 05/20/2019 1:52:00 PM PDT by Perseverando

Spain led the Holy League to defeat the Ottoman Turkish Navy at the Battle of Lepanto near Corinth, Greece, in 1571.

Hilaire Belloc wrote in The Great Heresies (1938):

"This violent Mohammedan pressure on Christendom from the East made a bid for success by sea as well as by land.

... The last great Turkish organization working now from the conquered capital of Constantinople, proposed to cross the Adriatic, to attack Italy by sea and ultimately to recover all that had been lost in the Western Mediterranean.

... There was one critical moment when it looked as though the scheme would succeed.

A huge Mohammedan armada fought at the mouth of the Gulf of Corinth against the Christian fleet at Lepanto.

... The Christians won that naval action and the Western Mediterranean was saved.

But it was a very close thing, and the name of Lepanto should remain in the minds of all men with a sense of history as one of the half dozen great names in the history of the Christian world."

Funded by gold from the New World, the Spanish navy helped save Western Civilization from being overrun by Islam, but it declined to follow up on the victory of Lepanto.

Instead of freeing Mediterranean coasts and islands from Ottoman control, Spain decided to crush the Reformation in Holland and England.

In 1572, the Spain sent the Iron Duke of Alba to subdue Antwerp and surrounding Dutch cities , killing thousands, in what is called "The Spanish Furies," 1572-1576.

In 1588, King Philip of Spain was the most powerful leader in the world, after whom the Philippines were named.

On MAY 19, 1588, Philip sent his invincible Spanish Armada to invade England.

Consisting of 130 ships with 1,500 brass guns and 1,000 iron guns,

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TOPICS: AMERICA - The Right Way!!; History; Military/Veterans; Religion
KEYWORDS: america; americanminute; battleoflepanto; corinth; elizabethi; greece; history; ottomanempire; sirfrancisdrake; spanisharmada; tudorengland
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Welcome to today's American Minute history lesson.
1 posted on 05/20/2019 1:52:00 PM PDT by Perseverando
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To: Perseverando

Cervantes served on board one of the Spanish ships and was wounded. He sometimes referred to himself as “el manco de Lepanto”.


2 posted on 05/20/2019 1:59:56 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: Perseverando

3 posted on 05/20/2019 2:04:06 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Perseverando
Funded by gold from the New World, the Spanish navy helped save Western Civilization from being overrun by Islam, but it declined to follow up on the victory of Lepanto.

I didn't realize that the victors at Lepanto were the same 'Spanish Armada" that attacked the Netherlands and England, and was eventually defeated.

4 posted on 05/20/2019 2:08:18 PM PDT by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: Perseverando

Tremendous history. Thanks for posting. BUMP!


5 posted on 05/20/2019 2:10:29 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Perseverando

I hate when people sink my invincible stuff.


6 posted on 05/20/2019 2:13:15 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

I certainly wasn’t expecting that.


7 posted on 05/20/2019 2:17:10 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Will88

The Armada was “defeated” mostly by a violent storm that swamped its ships, and by Philip’s choice of an inexperienced officer to command the expedition. England’s victory was not the result of superior naval tactics, like those it employed centuries later at Trafalgar, but by a series of blunders on the part of the Spanish, coupled with plain good fortune.


8 posted on 05/20/2019 2:33:25 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Perseverando
My daughter and I toured the Maritime Museum in Barcelona about 9 years ago. It was a fantastic museum. Unfortunately, when we were there, the replica of the "Galley Real," Don Juan's flagship at the battle of Lepanto (1571), was in renovation and we were unable to see it. But the museum is really spectacular and really brought home what we learned so many years ago in school about Spain controlling the seas.


9 posted on 05/20/2019 2:34:09 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Will88
"the same 'Spanish Armada" that attacked the Netherlands and England, and was eventually defeated.'

The weather was against them. I wonder who is in charge of that.

10 posted on 05/20/2019 2:35:39 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: DannyTN

Should have given the command of the Armada to Don Juan-he would have focused on sinking the smaller British fleet rather than just transporting the Duke of Palmas Army. The weather got them and poor leadership (it always does) sank the Armada—not Tudor England’s guns.


11 posted on 05/20/2019 2:44:34 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Perseverando
Surprised HG aint been by to dog ya.

Don't let him get to ya, it's just what he does.

12 posted on 05/20/2019 2:53:25 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: fella

We know who is in charge and we know that Obama was not helping.

“the same ‘Spanish Armada” that attacked the Netherlands and England, and was eventually defeated.’

The weather was against them. I wonder who is in charge of that.


13 posted on 05/20/2019 2:53:37 PM PDT by Dacula
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To: Will88

No the ships were entirely different.

Lepanto was fought between fleets of oared galleys, with auxiliary masts and sails.

The Armada campaign was fought between fleets of sailing ships, although the Spanish brought a few oared warships up from the Med. These didn’t fare well in the choppier waters off the west coast of Europe. The English Channel can be plenty choppy, and don’t even get me started on the North Sea and the Bay of Biscay.

Generally, the Spanish fleet did well as long as they kept to their natural habitat in the Med.

Against the English — a seafaring race as they never tire of reminding us — they fared poorly, but not as poorly as some of the propaganda of the time might suggest. The 1588 campaign was a disaster for the Spanish, but the Spaniards subsequently rebuffed various English aggressions against their commerce.

Unlike the Napoleonic period, England never enjoyed maritime dominance during the Elizabethan period. Power, certainly, but it was a closely contested fight all the way.


14 posted on 05/20/2019 2:59:49 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: SunkenCiv

*ping*


15 posted on 05/20/2019 3:05:08 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: Perseverando

Nothing like a flaming Spanish Galleon


16 posted on 05/20/2019 3:13:18 PM PDT by xp38
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To: IronJack

IronJack is right; mostly weather.


17 posted on 05/20/2019 3:13:21 PM PDT by A strike (Import third world become third world)
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To: SunkenCiv

PING


18 posted on 05/20/2019 3:17:07 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Thanks fieldmarshaldj. There's been a great deal of recent revisionism about the English victory over the Spanish Armada. Drake had experienced the Spanish use of fire ships during his own raid on Spanish ports in 1587, and filed that information away. The use of fire ships by the English navy was indeed his suggestion.

19 posted on 05/20/2019 3:36:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Tennessee Nana
Thanks TN.

20 posted on 05/20/2019 3:37:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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