Spanish Armada

The Spanish Armada was a war between England and Spain. Armada means fleet of warships and that’s literally what it was. The Spanish had just created a colony in newly discovered North America and had found gold in it and Spain was thriving. That was the cause of the war. England of course wasn't going to miss an opportunity to make money and spread their religion, so they decided to make a colony of their own. The problem was that whenever the Spanish created their colony, they made it clear to other European countries that nobody else could settle on it.

Even so, several countries decided that Spain shouldn't be in charge of them. So in 1588, the Spanish Armada began. The Spanish had a huge Navy with enormous ships. The English had small ships and an even smaller Navy. Yet because of the huge ships the Spanish had, they went really slow. As I said earlier the English had very small ships but what they had moved swiftly across the water. To everyone’s surprise the English had victory in the Spanish Armada.

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