The copie of a letter sent out of England to Don Bernardin Mendoza ambassadour in France for the King of Spaine : declaring the state of England, contrary to the opinion of Don Bernardin, and of all his partizans Spaniardes and others. This letter, although it was sent to Don Bernardin Mendoza, yet, by good hap, the copies therof aswell in English as in French, were found in the chamber of one Richard Leigh a seminarie priest, who was lately executed for high treason committed in the time that the Spanish Armada was on the seas. Whereunto are adioyned certaine late aduertisements, concerning the losses and distresses happened to the Spanish nauie, aswell in fight with the English nauie in the narrow seas of England, as also by tempests, and contrarie winds, vpon the west, and north coasts of Ireland, in their returne from the northerne isles beyond Scotland. by Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598

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The making of the Elizabethan Navy, 1540-1590 : from the Solent to the Armada / by Loades, D. M.

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A military history of the Western World. by Fuller, J. F. C. 1878-1966

Table of Contents: “…From the defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588, to the Battle of Waterloo, 1815.…”

The year after the Armada, and other historical studies. by Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp, 1847-1910

Table of Contents: “…--The evolution of the Spanish Armada.--A fight against finery.--A palace in the Strand.…”

Sir Francis Drake : his daring deeds / by Gerrard, Roy

Good Queen Bess : the story of Elizabeth I of England / by Stanley, Diane

Events that changed the world through the sixteenth century /

Table of Contents: “…The reconquista, c. 711-1492 -- The Renaissance, c. 1300-1630 -- The Hundred Years' War, 1337-1453 -- The Ming Dynasty comes to power, 1368-1431 -- The age of European expansion begins, c. 1450-c. 1525 -- The development of movable type, c. 1450 -- The fall of Constantinople, 1453 -- The conquest of the New World, 1492-c. 1550 -- The Protestant Reformation, c. 1517-1648 -- The Spanish Armada, 1588.…”
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Ad serenissimam Elizabetham angliae reginam Theodor. Beza by Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605

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Great sea battles / by Warner, Oliver, 1903-1976

Table of Contents: “…Lepanto, 1571 -- The Spanish Armada, 1588 -- The Downs, 1639 -- The Sound, 1658 -- The Four-Days' Battle, 1666 -- Sicily, 1676 -- Gibraltar and Malaga, 1704 -- Quiberon Bay, 1759 -- Flamborough Head, 1779 -- Chesapeake Bay, 1781 -- Suffren in the East Indies, 1782-3 -- The Glorious First of June, 1794 -- The Nile, 1798 -- Copenhagen, 1801 -- Trafalgar, 1805 -- Lissa, 1811 -- Lake Erie, 1813 -- Navarino Bay, 1827 -- Hampton Roads, 1862 -- Mobile, 1864 -- Tsushima, 1905 -- Coronel and the Falkland Islands, 1914 -- Jutland, 1916 -- The pursuit of the Bismarck, 1941 -- Midway, 1942 -- Leyte Gulf, 1944.…”

Elizabethan espionage : plotters and spies in the struggle between Catholicism and the crown / by Martin, Patrick H.

Table of Contents: “…The Persons-Campion Jesuit mission of 1580-1581 -- Tainted in blood -- A wolf by the ears -- The MP from Morpeth: gentleman pensioner and assassin -- Persecution of Catholic gentry -- Aboard the ambassador's boat -- Mary Stewart and the theatre of the world -- The Spanish Armada and English Catholics -- The Essex, Phelippes and Bacon intelligence initiative -- In Spanish lands: the Bisley-Moody Plot -- The Parliament of 1593: Sterrell and Marlowe -- Who can protect the queen? …”
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Spenser's Irish work : poetry, plantation and colonial reformation / by Herron, Thomas, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Spenser and the anxious critics -- Spenser's plantation life -- Planting reformation in Ireland : Walshe, Smith, Robinson, and Bryskett -- Spenser's heroic legacy in Munster verse : Ralph Birkenshaw and Parr Lane -- Elemental violence and the Virgilian ladder -- Flourishing monarchs : Virgil's Georgics, Gavin Douglas, and the proem to The faerie queene -- Plain thinking and civic celebration in Book I -- Imperial coda : Elizabethan progress and The Mutabilitie cantos -- Pagan hound : Cⵣhulainn, the Souldan, and the Spanish Armada in Book V -- Taming Raleigh's beast : monastic dissolution and local politics in Book VI.…”

To rule the waves : how the British Navy shaped the modern world / by Herman, Arthur, 1956-

Ad serenissimam Elizabetham angliae reginam Theodor. Beza.. by Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605

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Ad serenissimam Elizabetham Angliae Reginam Theodor. Beza by Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605

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[The spyte of Spaine, or, a thankfull remembrance of Gods mercie in Britanes dileuerie from the Spanish Armado. 1588.].

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War made new : technology, warfare, and the course of history, 1500 to today / by Boot, Max, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Sail and shot : the Spanish Armada, July 31-September 21, 1588 -- Missile and muscle : Breitenfeld and L赴zen, September 17, 1631-November 16, 1632 -- Flintlocks and forbearance : Assaye, September 23, 1803 -- Rifles and railroads : K诮iggr衴z, July 3, 1866 -- Maxim guns and dum dums : Omdurman, September 2, 1898 -- Steel and steam : Tsushima, May 27-28, 1905 -- Tanks and terror : France, May 10-June 22, 1940 -- Flattops and torpedoes : Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 -- Superfortresses and firebombs : Tokyo, March 9-10, 1945 -- Precision and professionalism : Kuwait and Iraq, January 17-February 28, 1991 -- Special forces and horses : Afghanistan, October 7-December 6, 2001 -- Humvees and IEDs : Iraq, March 20, 2003-May 1, 2005 -- Revolutions to come.…”

The birth, purpose, and mortall vvound of the Romish holie League : Describing in a mappe the enuie of Sathans shauelings, and the follie of their wisedome, through the Almighties... by I. L., fl. 1589

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A Skeltonicall salutation, or condigne gratulation, and iust vexation of the Spanish nation : that in a bravado, spent many a crusado, in setting forth an armado England to invado.

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Worlds apart : traveling with Fernie and me : poems / by Soto, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Itching to travel -- San Francisco fog -- Luxury liner -- Waikiki beach -- Australia backwoods -- Tattoos -- Internet café -- Mexican food in Taiwan -- Fanfare in Mongolia -- Homesickness -- American school in India -- Source of the Nile -- Drama -- Things we hear when we're lost -- Safari -- Lost camel of Aswan -- Lazy boys -- Touring Russia on bikes -- Off the Aegean coast -- Late snack in Sicily -- Another kind of Spanish armada -- Liechtenstein -- Window shopping in Lucerne -- Paris -- Mona Lisa -- Educational opportunity -- Scottish attire -- Influence of penguins -- Buenos Aires -- Road not taken... …”

A Skeltonicall salutation, or condigne gratulation, and iust vexation of the Spanishe nation : that in a bravado, spent many a crusado, in setting forth an armado England to invado...

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