The Elizabethan propaganda and Protestant historiography next has made an extraordinary event for the English history, even to justify the climate of terror that Cecil and Walsingham had created in the country against the "papists".
Extraordinary is the tenacity of Philip II in wanting to pursue the project.
Elizabeth, accostumed to surround himself with thieves, murderers and pirates, who were covered by her of honors and riches to give them a semblance of legitimacy, only through cowardly actions of piracy, she has managed to delay the completion and the departure of the Armada.
Philip, so extraordinary, has made three attempts and never surrender.
Transport of troops by sea was quite normal: troops sent to Italy, the Netherlands, France (attempt of the Duke of Mercœur for independence Brittany),... then, take an army for take him to fight on another ground was usual thing.
Extraordinary is that the last attempt to conquer the British Isles successfully achieved dated at the time of William the Conqueror!
Philip was unlucky. He knew England since there had reigned, so, if he planned this project of conquest, he had the certainty of being able to complete successfully. Either there would not have tried three times!
If Elizabeth had "played" honestly, without resorting dishonestly to her pirates and privateers, the story would have, perhaps, followed another path.
The misfortune, then, prevented to the ships, due to bad weather, to load the troops led by the Duke of Parma, in the place predetermined. Location that Parma could not reach also because of the interference of the troops of the French Protestants and their allies.
Elizabeth has saved her throne, and her head, only thanks to the misfortune of Philip, not thanks to Providence or the ability of not so much of her "fleet", but her pirates and privateers.
Different speech can be done, however, on the action against the British Army while circumnavigated the British Isles to return to Spain. I do not see reason for pride, in any case ...
The British propaganda then created the myth.
Propaganda that, over the centuries, has made the fortune of England ...
As Churchill, painted from the propaganda as a champion of democracy, savior of democratic freedom in Europe, who, however, has not made a problem of dividing with Stalin "for percentage" the countries of Eastern Europe (the infamous Percentages Agreement), in order to maintain control over Greece, strategic base for British businesses through the Suez Canal.
Extraordinary is the tenacity of Philip II in wanting to pursue the project.
Elizabeth, accostumed to surround himself with thieves, murderers and pirates, who were covered by her of honors and riches to give them a semblance of legitimacy, only through cowardly actions of piracy, she has managed to delay the completion and the departure of the Armada.
Philip, so extraordinary, has made three attempts and never surrender.
Transport of troops by sea was quite normal: troops sent to Italy, the Netherlands, France (attempt of the Duke of Mercœur for independence Brittany),... then, take an army for take him to fight on another ground was usual thing.
Extraordinary is that the last attempt to conquer the British Isles successfully achieved dated at the time of William the Conqueror!
Philip was unlucky. He knew England since there had reigned, so, if he planned this project of conquest, he had the certainty of being able to complete successfully. Either there would not have tried three times!
If Elizabeth had "played" honestly, without resorting dishonestly to her pirates and privateers, the story would have, perhaps, followed another path.
The misfortune, then, prevented to the ships, due to bad weather, to load the troops led by the Duke of Parma, in the place predetermined. Location that Parma could not reach also because of the interference of the troops of the French Protestants and their allies.
Elizabeth has saved her throne, and her head, only thanks to the misfortune of Philip, not thanks to Providence or the ability of not so much of her "fleet", but her pirates and privateers.
Different speech can be done, however, on the action against the British Army while circumnavigated the British Isles to return to Spain. I do not see reason for pride, in any case ...
The British propaganda then created the myth.
Propaganda that, over the centuries, has made the fortune of England ...
As Churchill, painted from the propaganda as a champion of democracy, savior of democratic freedom in Europe, who, however, has not made a problem of dividing with Stalin "for percentage" the countries of Eastern Europe (the infamous Percentages Agreement), in order to maintain control over Greece, strategic base for British businesses through the Suez Canal.
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