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Mind Map by Claire Duffy, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Claire Duffy
over 6 years ago
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The Spanish made mistakes in their attempt to invade England and this was the main reason why the Armada was defeated. How far do you agree? 16 marks
- Spanish mistakes
- Poor leader
Medina sidona
- Chosen for social standing
not naval experience
- Chosen for social standing
not naval experience
- Uniting two armies by sea.
- Unreliable communication
between two armies
- Unreliable communication
between two armies
- Poor army compostition and equipment
- Soldiers had no naval experience
- More priests than saliors
- Spanish guns were only able to fire once an hour
- Ships were cramped and hard to find
specific ammo for specific cannons
- Gunner decks cramped and
hard so hard to load cannon
- Ships were cramped and hard to find
specific ammo for specific cannons
- Soldiers had no naval experience
- Had no deep water ports in
the netherlands near flanders
- Made embarking the
armada ships hard
- Made embarking the
armada ships hard
- Poor leader
Medina sidona
- English Tatics
- Long-range cannons to fire at Spanish
ships out of range of the grappling hooks
- Spanish primarily fought hand-to-hand
combat and so could not damage english
- Spanish were only able to
press forward to flanders
- Spanish were only able to
press forward to flanders
- Spanish primarily fought hand-to-hand
combat and so could not damage english
- Fire ships scattered the Spanish ships
breaking their defensive formation
- Allowed English navy to concentrate
fire on specific important ships
- Allowed more ships to be sunk
- Allowed more ships to be sunk
- Allowed English navy to concentrate
fire on specific important ships
- Long-range cannons to fire at Spanish
ships out of range of the grappling hooks
- Ships
- English ships
- Small
- streamline
- agile
- fast
- fast
- agile
- Small
- Spanish ships
- Large
- Cumbersome
- Cumbersome
- large capacity
- Slow
- Slow
- Large
- English ships
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