Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Spanish made mistakes in their attempt to invade England and this was the main reason why the Armada was defeated. How far do you agree? 16 marks
- Spanish mistakes
- Poor leader
Medina sidona
- Chosen for social standing
not naval experience
- Uniting two armies by sea.
- Unreliable communication
between two armies
- Poor army compostition and equipment
- Soldiers had no naval experience
- More priests than saliors
- Spanish guns were only able to fire once an hour
- Ships were cramped and hard to find
specific ammo for specific cannons
- Gunner decks cramped and
hard so hard to load cannon
- Had no deep water ports in
the netherlands near flanders
- Made embarking the
armada ships hard
- English Tatics
- Long-range cannons to fire at Spanish
ships out of range of the grappling hooks
- Spanish primarily fought hand-to-hand
combat and so could not damage english
- Spanish were only able to
press forward to flanders
- Fire ships scattered the Spanish ships
breaking their defensive formation
- Allowed English navy to concentrate
fire on specific important ships
- Allowed more ships to be sunk
- Ships
- English ships
- Small
- streamline
- agile
- fast
- Spanish ships
- Large
- Cumbersome
- large capacity
- Slow