History and chronology of Alonso Perez de Guzman in Spain

General

Anglo Spanish War
England Spain War
Military

Events

Battle Gravelines
Blockade Flanders
Captain
Capture Cadiz
Mobilization
Spanish Armada

Places

Cadiz
Firth Forth
Flanders
Gravelines
Kent
Margate

Alonso Perez de Guzman History of Spain


1588	Battle of Gravelines
6th Aug Flanders A change in wind direction enables Sidona to flee nth west
6th Aug Gravelines Escapes the English by rounding the Orkneys then returning to Spain
6th Aug Firth of Forth Perez de Guzman is chased by 2 English ships to the Firth of Forth
6th Aug Gravelines The Spanish Armada is defeated by an English naval force under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake off the coast of Gravelines , now in France
1588	Blockade of Flanders
6th Aug Flanders 29-30 July, cannot break the blockade where the Armada must refit & obtain ammunition
6th Aug Flanders The Armada is forced to return to Spain via the North Sea & the Atlantic
1588	Captain
Appointed Commander of the Armada
Appointed Leader of the Armada,
1588	Mobilization
Spanish ships outnumber English 2:1
The Spanish fail to join up due to the Dutch "sea beggars"
1588	Spanish Armada
Kent Hopes to march through Kent to London & wait for a Catholic rising
Margate Plans to join Parma at the "Cape of Margate" & carry his army from Flanders to England
1595	Captain
Appointed Captain of the Ocean
1596	Capture of Cadiz
Cadiz Loses Cadiz to the English