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Invincible Armada   /ɪnvˈɪnsəbəl ɑrmˈɑdə/   Listen
Invincible Armada

noun
1.
The great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588.  Synonym: Spanish Armada.





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... to London, England demonstrated her new greatness to an astonished world; by the defeat of Spain's greatest fleet, the "invincible Armada," England showed herself as no longer a small island nation, but as Mistress of the Sea. In this victory culminated the growth which had begun under Henry VII, first of Tudor sovereigns. Naval supremacy was, however, but a sign of a much greater and more far-reaching ...
— An Introduction to Shakespeare • H. N. MacCracken
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