[SunkenCiv]

• The Speedwell, forgotten ship of the pilgrims' voyage (400 years today?) [08/01/2020]
• Sinking of Invincible Spanish Armada [05/20/2019]
• Seabed Gives Up Spanish Armada Wreck Cannons [06/18/2015]
• Spanish Armada artefacts retrieved from the ocean [Co. Sligo, Ireland] [06/17/2015]
• Armada wreck discovered off Donegal [08/06/2011]
• AB Negative Blood Types In Northern Ireland. [03/31/2008]

[Uncle Miltie]

So why do Nissan and other companies name products “Armada” after a spectacularly failed fleet?

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The Spanish plan was to land a total of 50,000 troops, more from Belgium, then Spanish, after the initial landing. That was a huge force for the time. They also planned to recruit English Catholics. They thought English was majority Catholic at the time. However, Elizabeth I was popular. Because Elizabeth had Mary Queen of Scots executed, and Henry VII and Henry VIII had had most people with Plantagenet claims to the throne executed, the Spanish plan was to put a Catholic European with Plantagenet descent in as a puppet king.

Japanese car companies maybe don’t know much about European history.

[Az Joe]

The Spanish Armada in Ireland refers to the arrival of a portion of the Spanish fleet on the Irish coast in 1588. The fleet was part of an attempt to invade England and overthrow Queen Elizabeth I.

A storm blew the Spanish fleet off course.
Many ships were shipwrecked on the west coast of Ireland.
Up to 9,000 Spanish soldiers and sailors died.
The English government ordered the execution of Spanish invaders and Irish who helped them.

I believe my ancestors may have killed some of those Spainards, They hail from the SW coast of Ireland