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Article: The Return of the Armadas: The Last Years of the Elizabethan War Against Spain, 1595-1603. (book reviews)
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- November 1, 1995
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Until lately, historical writing on the war years of Elizabethan England found its heroes in the seafarers - Drake, Hawkins, Ralegh - and their exploits in the Caribbean and the Atlantic. But eleven years ago. in his After the Armada: Elizabethan England and the Struggle for Western Europe, 1588-1595 R.B. Wernham sought successfully to give `juster emphasis to the continental and military side of the Elizabethan war with Spain'.
Now, in a sequel, he argues that, from about 1595, the focus of English attention shifted from the continental land war to the Atlantic. By then the French and the Dutch felt themselves more secure against the danger from Spain, while Philip ...
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