Spain's premier naval strategist in the 1580s, Adm Santa Cruz (don't recmember his exact title), was responsible for planning and organising the Great Armada, but died suddenly in 1587 IIRC before seeing his grand adventure come to fruition. In his place, King Philip appointed the Duke of Medina Siddonia, a total naval incompetent who'd never been to sea before the Armada campaign, thereby contributing to Spain's humbling in 1588.
WI Santa Cruz actually lives ? Could his leadership of the Spanish fleet in 1588 have overcome the audacity of Drake, Frobisher, Effingham and the other English sea dogs and facilitated a successful Spanish invasion of England ?
WI Santa Cruz actually lives ? Could his leadership of the Spanish fleet in 1588 have overcome the audacity of Drake, Frobisher, Effingham and the other English sea dogs and facilitated a successful Spanish invasion of England ?