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Spanish Armadas

An Armada dispatched in 1588 had ended in disaster for the Spanish. Now, hardened by events at C谩diz and making good his pledge of support to O鈥橬eill and the Irish Catholics, Phillip II decides to send another. But would the 1596 fleet fair any better?

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