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Spanish Armada
History of England
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| | 1588 | Drake, Francis | |
| 30th July Plymouth Drake is waiting in Plymouth with 14 galleons & 50 other vessels
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| 30th July Dodman Point The two fleets sight each other off Dodman Point
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| 1588 | Dudley, Robert | |
| Aug Tilbury Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester maintaines a force of 4,000 soldiers at West Tilbury, Essex, to defend the estuary of the River Thames against any incursion up-river towards London
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| 1588 | Elizabeth I | |
| 8th Aug Tilbury I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too
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| 8th Aug Tilbury Queen Elizabeth visits Tilbury to encourage her forces and gives to them what is probably her most famous speech
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| 1588 | Howard, Charles | |
| Effingham orders an indirect strategy of harassing the Spanish fleet rather than attacking them directly
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| 12th Aug Howard calls a halt to the chase in the latitude of the Firth of Forth off Scotland but ut by that point, the Spanish are suffering from thirst and exhaustion, the only option left to Sidonia is to chart a course home to Spain, along the Atlantic
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