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Elizabeth I and the Spanish Armada; the Apothecaries painting, sometimes attributed to Nicholas Hilliard. A stylised depiction of key elements of the Armada story: the alarm beacons, Queen Elizabeth at Tilbury, and the sea battle at Gravelines. There is no doubt that the defeat of the Spanish Armada was a pivotal moment in British history, […]

BRITISH CAMP ON CUBA, 1741 The British invasion of Cuba was a failure for reasons that this map of the well-defended position they established in Guantanamo Bay did not reveal. An attack on the major port of Santiago was planned, but the British troops were landed in the bay more than eighty miles away. This […]

Philip III of Spain, 1599-1601 The Somerset House Conference between English and Spanish diplomats that brought an end to the Anglo–Spanish War (1585–1604). At the very last moment, Philip III’s ships sailed not northwards for England or Ireland, but southwards for the Azores, where a formidable fleet of Dutch warships lay in wait for the […]