The Spanish Armada arrives in Sydney

[mike carey]

With so much discussion about on whether countries were paying 'their share' of defence commitments, I had to post this. Especially when I could use a title like this one.

 

http://news.navy.gov.au/images/cache/746x497/crop/images%7Ccms-image-000010402.jpg

 

Actually it's only one ship of the Armada Española that has arrived here. The Cristobal Colon is here for three months to assist in training for new RAN ships.

 

http://news.navy.gov.au/en/Mar2017/Fleet/3615#.WNUAxJ4lHIV

[+ Funguy]

The entire original Armada Espanola could probably fit nose to tail along the length of this one!

[marylander1940]

Let's see the whole picture some anglophiles among yinz @mike carey may not have heard about the 2nd part of this story.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Armada

 

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And this is how it all ended

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Armada

 

With the opportunity to strike a decisive blow against the weakened Spanish navy lost, the failure of the expedition depleted the financial resources of England's treasury, which had been carefully restored during the long reign of Elizabeth I. The Anglo-Spanish war was financially costly to both of its protagonists, and the Spanish Empire - which was also fighting France and the United Provinces at the same time, would be compelled in financial distress to default on its debt repayments in 1596 following another raid by the English on Cadiz. In 1595 the Spanish counter-attacked the English mainland at the Battle of Cornwall. In 1596 and 1597 two more armadas, substantially weaker than the great one she had issued in 1588, were sent by Spain against England, but both were scattered by storms on route.[16] However the failure of the English expedition of 1589 marked an ebbing point in the Anglo-Spanish war, and the conflict wound down with diminishing military actions, until a peace was agreed between the two powers on the signing of the Treaty of London in 1604.