The Anglo-Spanish War of 1585-1603 was, to most contemporary
Englishmen, a conflict for the soul of the nation. To their
descendants, the Armada campaign of 1588 represented a watershed in
European history that both preserved English freedoms and halted
the momentum of an ambitious and alien empire. Yet the victorious
nation had contributed much to the conflict. This book examines the
process by which the Spaniard, a long-term ally and friend, became
in English eyes the epitome of human depravity, and how resistance
to his imagined goals helped shape an emerging sense of nationhood.
The antipathies generated by this process ensured that the Armada
campaign was a battle for different ideals of civilization. The
protagonists expected the clash to be decisive, but what ensued was
no heroic encounter. Instead it was an inconclusive affair,
redeemed-for England-by atrocious weather and poor Spanish
understanding of the coastlines of western Scotland and Ireland.
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