Department at the Rutgers University library‚ a folder of primary source documents titled “Rutgers Buildings and Grounds” obtains an article written by Daniel Y. Brink‚ a pastor at Kirkpatrick Chapel‚ states “in the 16th century‚ the King of Spain Philip II sent an army under the ruthless Duke of Alva to stamp out growing Protestant movement and to assert the Spanish authority...the people of the Netherlands suffered terribly under the cruelties of the invaders and ten thousand persons were put to
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Armada. Even her enemies doted upon her victory as well as her leadership skill. The Count of Feria remarked upon her Elizabeth’s leadership skill by noting: ”Not only was she “a young lass who‚ although sharp‚ is without prudence‚” he later wrote Philip that her impetuosity was all the more dangerous because she was “incomparably more feared than her sister‚ and gives her orders and has her way as absolutely as her father did. (Thomas 85 i.e.)”” Throughout Europe Elizabeth was well respected as
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invasion of England lead by Philip II of Spain and his army. Literally a clash of the Catholic Spaniards and the Protestant Englishman. The English knew the attack was coming so they readied their ships and warriors. The Spanish way of warfare was very conservative: get their guns‚ soldiers would load them‚ they would fire one broad side of the cannons at the opponents. The Spanish had been so successful for so long that they were conventional when it came to battles. Though Philip had been told that it
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exaggerated by England. For much of the sixteenth century Spain and England had been allies‚ this was due to the marriage of Philp II and Mary Tudor; Mary also had strong catholic beliefs and even killed many protestants in her reign‚ earning her the name ‘Bloody Mary’. However Mary’s death in 1558 meant the crown was passed to Mary’s half-sister; Elizabeth I.1 After Mary’s death Phillip had offered to marry Elizabeth‚ to keep the relations between Spain and England; however Elizabeth rejected his proposal
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article‚ Jensen talks about how Spain was unable to keep the Spanish Armada a secret‚ which eventually led to the downfall of Spain. Jensen asserts the reason behind the Spanish Armada was the rising tensions between the King and the Queen. The main reasons for the escalation of the tensions between them were “Elizabethan harassment of Spanish shipping” (Jensen‚ 1988) and “when
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Elizabeth because people in England and in the European Union would want Mary Queen of Scots to be Queen and not Elizabeth I. The Spanish Armada was also a large threat to Elizabeth during her reign. This threat was posed by The King of Spain‚ King Philip II. Philip and the Spanish were attacking England‚ because they wanted Mary on the throne. The Spanish Armada was a large threat to Elizabeth in 1588‚ because the Spanish could easily have attacked England; they had a lot more men and boats than the
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two fleets fought in the narrow waters of the English Channel. The battle pitched Protestants against Catholics and was part of the 16th-century struggle between the armies of Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England and Roman Catholic King Philip II of Spain. “To them the clash of the English and Spanish fleets in the Channel was‚” explains the book The Defeat of the Spanish Armada‚ “a final struggle to the death between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.” English observers of the
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attacks if he went back the way he came’. Drake made many enemies as he explored the world‚ but the country he angered the most was Spain-the most powerful country in Europe. Philip II of Spain was furious‚ and knew that Drake was attacking them in ’the name of England’. Drake also angered Philip as he was also involved in the slave trade. Drake and Hawkins sailed to ‘New Spain’ to sell their captives to settlers (backed by Queen Elizabeth)‚ an action that was against Spanish law. But there slave-trading
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Elizabeth I: Improving England’s International Standing: The Defeat of the Spanish Armada Elizabeth Tudor was born in 1533 to King Henry VIII and his second wife‚ Anne Boleyn. Her life began in the midst of controversy and continued to be troubled until her death in 1603. Elizabeth‚ in reality‚ never should have been the ruler of Great Britain at all since she had several siblings in line for the throne ahead of her. After she was crowned queen at the age of 25‚ she successfully reigned for
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There were many factors that led to Cortez’s conquest of the Aztecs. The first factor to the conquering of the Aztecs are the weapons and horses Cortez’s army used. The second factor of Cortez’s Conquest is siding with the Indians. The last factor in the conquering of the Aztecs is the Aztec belief that Cortez was a god. Without the underlying factors‚ Cortez would not have defeated the Aztec empire of 5 million people. Cortez was chosen to be a captain of an expedition to Mexico in 1518
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