The ‘Armada’ itself refers to the Spanish fleet assembled for the operation, which was intended to escort the Spanish Army of Flanders across the English channel, past the English fleet. The Spanish Armada was the Spanish fleet charged with escorting the Spanish Army of Flanders to England’s shores. The Armada was the culmination of long running rivalry between England and Spain over strategic, trade and religious issues. The Spanish Armada, also known as the ‘Invincible Armada’ ( La Armada Invencible), was an attempt by the Spanish King Phillip II at a seaborne invasion of the Kingdom of England. Two other ships were also lost: the San Estaban and San Marcos, with the loss of around 800 lives.Ĭrawling ashore, half drowned, malnourished and in no fit state to resist, the survivors, about 300 men, were massacred at Spanish Point by both Irish forces raised by the O’Briens and English soldiers led by the Sherriff, Boetius Clancy. Six ships sailed away unscathed, but another, the Annunciada sank off Scattery Island, was set alight by crew and looted by locals. They anchored off Kilrush, where the starving sailors attempted to trade with the locals for food and water. They were the miserable remnants of a once mighty Spanish fleet. On Septemseven Spanish ships appeared off Liscannor, sighted by Nicholas Cahane, an agent of Boetius Clancy, the High Sherriff of County Clare. Ireland’s role in the inglorious end of Phillip of Spain’s attempt to invade England.
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