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Spanish Armada
b. spec. More fully Spanish Armada. Frequently with the. A Spanish naval invasion force sent against England in 1588 by Philip II of Spain.The Armada was defeated by the English fleet and suffered severe losses in storms in the North Atlantic.Also called the Invincible Armada (cf. invincible adj. 1a).
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armada1588
flote1673
flota1690
Home Fleet1705
home guard1712
Channel Fleet1741
Grand Fleet1914
1588 D. Archdeacon in tr. True Disc. Armie King of Spaine 14 The forces of the Spaniards, this their great Armado.
1588 Packe of Spanish Lyes 6/2 The English Nauie fought and did beate the Spanish Armada from viii. of the clock in the Morning, vntill 4. in the afternone.
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 5 [Vessels] nothing behinde in number with the inuincible Spanish Armada, though they were not such Gargantuan boysterous gulliguts as they.
1603 Eng. Mourn. Garm. in Harl. Misc. (1793) 205 The Spaniards, having their armatho ready.
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 88 The proud Ship-wracks of the Spanish Armado.
1702 London Gaz. No. 3808/3 The Ambition of Spain, when it..vain gloriously stiled its Armado Invincible.
1762 W. Cole Let. 16 May in H. Walpole Corr. (1937) I. 10 You seem to say that the tapestry hangings representing the destruction of the Armada were put up in the House of Lords in Oliver's administration.
1800 Naval Chron. 3 371 All the large vessels in his memorable armada of 1588, were Portuguese vessels.
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. iv. 187 Within eighteen months after the death of Mary, the Armada was in the Channel.
1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 1 The galleons of the Spanish Armada were pulled down by the sea-dogs of Drake.
1907 Daily Chron. 9 Sept. 3/2 The scare of invasion traces to the Armada of 1588.
1959 Elizabethan June 21/1 Fishermen are still bringing up old cannon and bits of bronze from the great galleons of the Spanish Armada.
2002 A. F. Truscott & D. H. Truscott N.Y. Times Bridge Bk. x. 107 Sir Francis Drake played a rubber of bowls while awaiting the approach of the Spanish Armada.
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