Invincible Armada

In 1588 the defeat of the Invincible Armada was a severe blow for the Catholic countries.

Once commanding an invincible armada of Star Destroyers, its fleet has been reduced to a skeleton force.

Recovery of underwater treasures of the galleass Girona, part of the Invincible Armada.

After the defeat of the "Invincible Armada," the objective was to show that Britain could sustain a successful campaign against corrupt and effete Continental powers.

The immense and invincible armada of robotic battleships had been en route for six days, inexorably following their programmed path to Salusa Secundus.

In 1588, Philip II prepared to invade England, only to be repulsed when the English navy destroyed Spain's previously invincible Armada.

The historical events that frame "Captain Alatriste" are the defeats of Spain's supposedly invincible Armada and the first stirrings of the Inquisition.

It is two centuries since the first Englishmen stepped ashore on Roanoke Island; two centuries since Spain's invincible Armada was smashed.

Longest streak of undefeated games in the Süper Lig with 56 games, hence the nickname Yenilmez Armada (Invincible Armada)

The English Armada was launched as part of this conflict in an attempt to restore Portuguese independence, destroying both Spanish and Portuguese military ships which formed the Invincible Armada.

King Philip II not only lost the invincible Armada in 1588 while trying to invade England but also sunk in most history books, as the epitome of the cruelty and intolerance associated with imperial Spain.

The preserve got its name in the late 16th century from Dona Ana de Silva y Mendoza, whose husband, the Duke of Medina Sidonia, unsuccessfully commanded Philip II's Invincible Armada in 1588.

But almost immediately after it closed on Oct. 10, the Spanish Government opened two major art shows to continue its commemoration of the death of King Philip, who lost what was thought to be the invincible Armada against England in 1588.

Even though the PCC ordered the Navy ships' computers to slow down their calculations, the battle that had begun so well ended in a rout; only about twenty-five percent of the conspiracy's supposedly invincible armada remained intact to fight another day.

But the declension of the naval power of this latter nation, in consequence of the defeat or miscarriage of what they called their Invincible Armada, which happened towards the end of the sixteenth century, put it out of their power to obstruct any longer the settlements of the other European nations.

Philip II ordered the arming of a great military fleet, which was to be come known as the Invincible Armada, and it was hastily assembled in the Spanish port of Cádiz and in the Portuguese port of Lisbon with the objective of invading England.