Captain Francisco de Cuéllar
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Captain Francisco de Cuéllar

The Armada, Ireland, and the Wars of the Spanish monarchy, 1578–1606

  1. 313 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Captain Francisco de Cuéllar

The Armada, Ireland, and the Wars of the Spanish monarchy, 1578–1606

About this book

Captain Francisco de Cuéllar was an officer who served with the ill-fated Spanish Armada. He was shipwrecked on the coast of Co. Sligo in September 1588. Known to Irish history for the extraordinary account he wrote of his experiences in Ireland, he survived a hurricane-force storm that destroyed his ship and killed most of those on board. A castaway, he found shelter among the Gaelic Irish of the northwest for seven months before he was helped to reach Scotland, and later, the Low Countries. But Captain Cuéllar's Irish adventure was only one of many in a remarkable military career. Drawing on previously undiscovered documents from Spanish and Belgian archives, this book chronicles, for the first time, Cuéllar's entire military service—from the earliest evidence of him as a soldier in 1578, to our final glimpse of him in 1606.

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Information

Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781801510042
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Table of contents
  5. List of abbreviations
  6. Glossary
  7. Currency
  8. Editorial note
  9. List of illustrations
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Preface
  12. Prologue: Requiem for a lost cause
  13. 1. The warehouse
  14. 2. Captaincy
  15. 3. Command of the sea
  16. 4. Post mortem
  17. 5. Burden of evidence
  18. 6. Royal capital
  19. 7. Race to the Azores
  20. 8. 'Confident hope of a miracle'
  21. 9. Shipwreck at Streedagh
  22. 10. Refuge with O'Rourke
  23. 11. 'The king of Scotland is a nobody'
  24. 12. Parma, Paris and Piedmont
  25. 13. War on two fronts
  26. 14. Distant horizons
  27. Epilogue: Old soldiers never die
  28. Appendix A: Text of Cuéllar's Carta
  29. Appendix B: Cuéllar's Carta and his views on the Irish
  30. Appendix C: Military salaries and Cuéllar's income
  31. Appendix D: Affidavit from Seville (1584)
  32. Appendix E: Ten documents
  33. Bibliography
  34. Index