Charles River Editors, Jesse Harasta
ASIN: B00QCG47ZA
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 78
*Includes pictures*Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes for fear of treachery; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people ... I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm.” – Queen Elizabeth IOn July 12, 1588, the legendary Spanish Armada started for the English channel. The Spanish plan was to take this invasion, led by the Duke of Parma, to the coast of southeast England, where they would be released to conquer Elizabethan England for the Spanish monarch and Catholic ...