The Last Armada
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The Last Armada

Queen Elizabeth, Juan del Águila, and Hugh O'Neill: The Story of the 100-Day Spanish Invasion

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eBook - ePub

The Last Armada

Queen Elizabeth, Juan del Águila, and Hugh O'Neill: The Story of the 100-Day Spanish Invasion

About this book

The story of the last great naval battle between England and Spain, evoking a number of colorful and dangerous personalities who fought in the climactic conclusion to these two countries' great rivalry on the sea. 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.

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Information

Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781681773520
eBook ISBN
9781681770963

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. A Note on the Text
  6. Chapter 1: Tinker, Tailor … Soldier
  7. Chapter 2: ‘Haste, Haste, for Your Life’
  8. Chapter 3: The Man Born without Fear
  9. Chapter 4: ‘For God, All Difficulties Must Be Overcome’
  10. Chapter 5: Sailing to God or the Devil
  11. Chapter 6: The Invasion
  12. Chapter 7: ‘I Will Never See My Homeland Again’
  13. Chapter 8: Trust in God and Keep Your Powder Wet
  14. Chapter 9: ‘Iacta Est Alea – The Die Is Cast’
  15. Chapter 10: Curses Like Thunderbolts
  16. Chapter 11: The Lord of Beara and Bantry
  17. Chapter 12: Confessions and Conspiracies
  18. Chapter 13: ‘Crested Plumes and Silken Sashes’
  19. Chapter 14: Digging for Victory
  20. Chapter 15: The Taking of Rinjora Castle
  21. Chapter 16: ‘The Most Bloody and Treacherous Traitor’
  22. Chapter 17: There Will Be No Retreat
  23. Chapter 18: Cold as Stone, Dark as Pitch
  24. Chapter 19: Stella and the Centaur
  25. Chapter 20: That Wondrous Winter March
  26. Chapter 21: A Direct Hit on Don Juan
  27. Chapter 22: Hell at Spaniards’ Point
  28. Chapter 23: ‘Let Us Settle This in Single Combat’
  29. Chapter 24: The Battle of Castlehaven
  30. Chapter 25: ‘Send Us Home Some Greyhounds’
  31. Chapter 26: The Great Persuader
  32. Chapter 27: ‘They Died by Dozens on a Heap’
  33. Chapter 28: A Meeting in the Fastness of Wood and Water
  34. Chapter 29: ‘My Lord, It Is Time to Arm’
  35. Chapter 30: ‘The Day of Trial’: The Battle of Kinsale
  36. Chapter 31: Wondering Why
  37. Chapter 32: Honourable Terms, or a Thousand Deaths
  38. Chapter 33: ‘A Barbarous Nation for Which Christ Never Died’
  39. Chapter 34: Dossier of Treason
  40. Chapter 35: A Dead Juan Walking
  41. Chapter 36: The Trial
  42. Chapter 37: The Aftermath
  43. Chapter 38: Legacy
  44. Acknowledgements
  45. Illustrations
  46. Bibliography and Recommended Reading
  47. About the Author
  48. Copyright