The fleet sails again in July ... The most interesting of these is a comparison of a possible Spanish landing in England in 1588—had the Armada succeeded—with the successful Dutch invasion a century ...

He also destroyed the wood supplies leaving the Spanish with little to rebuild their fleet with. The Spanish fleet finally sailed in July 1588.

So he built a vast fleet of ships ... And on 28 April 1588, with 130 ships under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia carrying 8,000 sailors and 18,000 soldiers, the Spanish Armada set ...

The greatest challenge to Elizabeth was first sighted in the English Channel on 29 July 1588. This was the Spanish Armada, a fleet of armed ships sailing towards England in a crescent formation.