The last armada : Queen Elizabeth, Juan del �Aguila, and Hugh O'Neill : the story of the 100-day Spanish invasion / Des Ekin.
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TextPublisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2016Copyright date: �2015Edition: First Pegasus books hardcover editionDescription: 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781605989440
- 1605989444
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Ireland: Christmas Eve, 1601.As thunder crashes and lightning rakes the sky, three very different commanders line up for a battle that will decide the fate of a nation. General Juan del Águila has been sprung from a prison cell to command the last great Spanish armada. His mission: to seize a bridgehead in Queen Elizabeth's England and hold it.Facing him is Charles Blount, a brilliant English strategist whose career is also under a cloud. His affair with a married woman edged him into a treasonous conspiracy--and brought him to within a hair's breadth of the gallows.Meanwhile, Irish insurgent Hugh O'Neill knows that this is his final chance to drive the English out of Ireland. For each man, this is the last throw of the dice. Tomorrow they will be either heroes or failures.These colorful commanders come alive in this true story of courage and endurance, of bitterness and betrayal, and of drama and intrigue at the highest levels in the courts of England and Spain.
Originally published: Dublin, Ireland : The O'Brien Press, 2014.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-413).
An account of the final great naval battle between England and Spain details General Juan del �Aguila's attempt to invade Elizabeth I's England, strategist Charles Blount's efforts to redeem himself against charges of treason, and Irish insurgent Hugh O'Neill's final effort to drive the English out of Ireland.