Spanish Armada Research Paper

After the defeat of the Spanish Armada, Queen Elizabeth Ⅰ was known as Bellona, which means goddess of war. There were many reasons for England and Spain to not get along. One of the reasons was that England was a Protestant country and Spain was a Roman Catholic country. The Spanish did not like Queen Elizabeth Ⅰ because they thought she was illegitimate, they thought she did not belong on the throne ruling over England, and they thought that Spain was involved in some of the plots to dethrone her. King Philip Ⅱ would send out ships to the New World and Queen Elizabeth Ⅰ would encourage the English pirates to stop those ships and take the treasure aboard, which made King Philip Ⅱ very angry. In 1585, King Philip Ⅱ began making a giant

The main target for the Spanish Armada was to free Mary, Queen of Scots, because she was being held captive for participating in a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth Ⅰ. Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed in 1587, which was when King Philip Ⅱ’s plan of attack changed. King Philip Ⅱ then planned to invade England for his daughter, Infanta Isabella, in an attempt to put her on the throne and get rid of Queen Elizabeth Ⅰ. King Philip Ⅱ wanted to make his daughter the ruler for a result of trying to make England a Roman catholic country again. King Philip Ⅱ thought that his plan would work because in his mind, he had a big impact on England because he was Queen Mary Ⅰ’s husband and a descent from John of Gaunt. King Philip Ⅱ’s plan from the start was a disaster. The Duke of Medina Sedonia, which was King Philip Ⅱ’s successor, was not fit for the job because he had very little experience and he did not believe in the plan. Santa Cruz ended up dying, too. The plan had yet another hold up when Francis Drake and his men sailed to Spain and destroyed a lot of Spanish ships. Queen Elizabeth Ⅰ heard of the rumors of the attack Spain was planning, but she was not worried at first because she had heard of these types of rumors for about thirty

I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...” (“Queen Elizabeth Ⅰ: Speech to the Troops”).

At the end of the battle, Queen Elizabeth Ⅰ’s faith in her people and in God panned out in her favor in the end and the Spanish were humiliatingly defeated. The horrific weather was not on anyone's side with strong wind and rain. The Spanish just were not able to compete with the superior English ships and their war tactics, so the Spanish fled, bubt many of them never saw their home country