haw the English were able to defeat the Mighty Spanish Armada in 1588?
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ditto to the previous answer. In addition, the British hired pirates to tango with the Spanish. While these were not large-scale skirmishes, it meant that a lot of their attention was diverted prior to their big defeat. Probably the major preoccupation was dealing with these pirates that took gold and currency as opposed to defeating the British.
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Britain, France and Spain landed troops in 1861 near the end of a Civil War there (1857-1861) but that was in 1861...so I'm not sure if that's it.  Depends on what you mean by rallied.\n\nThis happen to be a textbook question?
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England. Their only win ever.
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The English were pretty much a confused lot! LOL
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The British Empire (along with Spain) had a very formidable navy. During the many generations when land ownership (and most other disputes) was being resolved through military means a powerful armada was yardstick of a countries success in acquiring and holding new territories.
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they all hate the english.but look on a early map and there were many different groups in england alone the norse raided all of these people and raped and pillaged and the scots and irish help each other so interbread now so much more alike than different now 15th century much more differences 9th century all different 4bc romans came to england so.1066 normans came.
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the story of  the British Isles from the first Roman Invasion to the fateful culmination known as the\nBattle of Hastings which was fought  between King Harold II of England and Duke William of  Normandy\ngo to the following sit it tells you everything and wow\nhttp://www.battle1066.com
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John Paul Jones:\nSeptember 23, 1779, Jones fought one of the bloodiest engagements in naval history. Jones struggled with the 44-gun Royal Navy frigate Serapis, and although his own vessel was burning and sinking, Jones would not accept the British demand for surrender, replying, I have not yet begun to fight. More than three hours later, Serapis surrendered and Jones took command.\nHave a great night!
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Wow, something that Rob Roy isn't an expert on.  You are just about as dumb as string.  I guess the schools in Scotland must not cover what we call "The War of 1812,"  I don't know what the English call it.  I assume in Scotland they call it "The war in the place that we were sent to do England's bidding (again) in 1812-1814."  Your English masters did manage to burn our capitol down, but we still b1tch slapped you.  \n\nWhy do you love Belgians so much?  Why did you edit that entry?  I was going to snidely quote your derisive comment about learning history back to you.
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It was the Elizabethan Age, the reign of Elizabeth I.  The explorations by the English began then, and the difficulties with Spain and the defeat of its Armada occured then.  There was a good deal of artistic fourishing, and also an increase in commerce and trade, and the usual political/religious bickering.  That was as far as England goes, but all of Europe was similarly in more or less the same phase of opening up to new worlds and new combinations of power and politics and economic growth.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_armada
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England... more history.
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The English will win\n...i hope
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yes england can beat any team on their day as they have excellent players, depth and chemistry.
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i think it was Jamestown
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The Puritans, those radical forefathers who left England to escape tyrannical religion.\n\nThe Spaniards were more interested in the gold and silver and basically slaughtered the Indians, or killed them by spreading disease.
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For once, these seas have broken the Turkish fleet apart, as they once broke apart the Armada, defeated as much by the storms of Scotland and Ireland as by the wiliness of Sir Francis Drake. \n\nThe Turkish fleet was defeated partly due to the weather, and the storm passed after it was defeated.