Anglo-spanish war (1585-1604) Part 2

In 1589 British forces under the command of Francis Drake and John Norreys attacked La Coruna, where they were rejected, and went to Lisbon, where they failed in their attempt to provoke an uprising Portuguese for Don Antonio.

The failure of the British Contraarmada caused major financial losses in the Elizabethan treasure, and allowed Philip rebuild Atlantic Spanish fleet, which turned quickly to have supremacy

A sophisticated intelligence escort and frustrated most pirate attacks to the Indian fleet from the 1590s: buccaneer expeditions of John Hawkins and Martin Frobisher in the beginning of the decade were defeated. Also, the ship Revenge (Revenge) one of the most important of its navy was captured near the Azores in 1591, when an English fleet tried to capture the Indian fleet.

In 1592 Pedro de Zubiaur dispersed ocean an English convoy of 40 ships on fire capturing the flagship and three other boats and the following year in the Battle of Blaye defeated a small fleet of six British ships (sinking its two main units) and escaped of a fleet sent to capture him even greater

Between 1595 and 1596, an English expedition against the Spanish settlements in the Caribbean, led by Drake and Hawkins, was defeated first in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and then in successive battles against Spanish forces greatly outnumbered in various Caribbean locations. The Spanish defenses were ahead of the attackers, the British suffered heavy losses, including the death of two sailors

In 1595, four Spanish ships commanded by Charles of Amésquita landed in Cornwall, western England. Also ran without problems in a fleet sent to destroy them.

In July 1596, Anglo-Dutch expedition led by Robert Devereux Earl of Essex sacked Cadiz, destroying the Spanish fleet anchored in the bay, and in October of that year the Spanish fleet under the command of Martin de Padilla was disrupted by a storm off the coast of Galicia on his way to Ireland. This army was reorganized and the British could not attack by another storm on the coast of Galicia, the English fleet headed for the Azores where it managed to win the Spanish fleet returning from the Indies. A new Spanish expedition against England in 1597 was derailed by a storm in the English Channel.

After the death of Philip II in 1598, his successor Philip III of Spain would continue the war against England. In May 1600 peace talks began in Boulogne-sur-Mer, which resulted fallidas.2

In October 1601 John Eagle landed in front of their thirds in Kinsale, on the south coast of Ireland, to support Irish forces at that time against England held the Nine Years War. The Spanish troops would be defeated in early 1602 in the Battle of Kinsale, with the coalition losing 1,200 men, including 90 Spanish, forcing his return to Spain and leaving as prioriaria achieving its objectives in Flanders

After the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, his successor James I of England in 1604 signed the Treaty of London with Philip III, in which both countries agreed to war.

The result for Spain was much more positive. He was the leading European power in the seventeenth century until the defeat against France in the Thirty Years War and the rise of Dutch naval power eventually reducing it to a higher power