When Queen Mary I died, and with her England's brief and bloody restoration of Catholicism, she was replaced with Elizabeth I, who reimposed Protestantism. But Philip II of Spain, Mary's widower, didn ...

Let's say this for Catholic Spain's King Phillip II, the man who in 1588 sent the Spanish Armada against the English: He had a devout Catholic's faith in divine providence. So sure was he of God's ...

In the Western consciousness, there are two main narratives of Spain’s attempted invasion of England in 1588. The first and most dominant in the Anglophone world can be characterized as the Protestant ...

A set of 10 hand-drawn, 16th century maps showing the progress of the Spanish Armada that attacked England in 1588, an event that shaped national identity, will remain in the country after a museum ...

It was an audacious military plan. A huge fleet of 130 ships with almost 30,000 men on board would sail north from Spain into the English Channel, link up with another 17,000 men in Dunkirk, France, ...

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More than four centuries after it sank to the sea bed, the secrets of a Spanish Armada wreck are being uncovered off the west coast of Ireland. A number of cannons, timbers and an anchor from La ...