The Spanish Armada was a naval fleet sent in and was lost in 1588 under the rule of King Philip II. The Armada’s purpose was to sail to the Netherlands, but most ships in the Armada were lost in a battle with England.
The Spanish Armada was sent by the king of Spain at the time, King Philip II. He was born in 1527 and became king at the age of 29 in 1556. During his rule, he organised a fleet of Spanish ships to sail to the Netherlands. In 1588 there were religious and royal problems. France, the royal bloodline, Valois, was close to dying out. One of the men trying to claim the throne was a Protestant, Henry of Navarre. The Catholic League, leg by The Duke of Guise, publicly opposed him. Spain, being Catholic, did not want Navarre in power, and when the Duke was assassinated and Navarre was getting close to the throne, King Philip II waged war on France in 1950, eight years before his death. (Commire)
The reason King Philip II sent the Armada was a religious as well as political reason. Spain was a Roman-Catholic country at the time, and they found out about a group of rebels in the Netherlands that England, a Protestant country. The Netherlands were a territory of Spain. Spain didn’t like this and sent the fleet of ships that had formerly been used to defeat the combined forces
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These ships were somewhat unique to each country making them, but they all had the same basic design. Galleons were large, crescent-moon shaped ships with multiple decks and three to four masts. The different level decks were used for different things, such as the upper decks used to mount weapons like cannons. The sails used were varying, because galleons combined square and triangular sails. The masts on the deck held large square-shaped sails and ones closer to the back had a triangular sail. Galleons were the fastest and most advanced ships in this time period, and had large and strong hulls, making them great for battle.