
Captain Francisco de Cuéllar
The Armada, Ireland, and the Wars of the Spanish monarchy, 1578–1606
- 313 pages
- English
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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- List of abbreviations
- Glossary
- Currency
- Editorial note
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Prologue: Requiem for a lost cause
- 1. The warehouse
- 2. Captaincy
- 3. Command of the sea
- 4. Post mortem
- 5. Burden of evidence
- 6. Royal capital
- 7. Race to the Azores
- 8. 'Confident hope of a miracle'
- 9. Shipwreck at Streedagh
- 10. Refuge with O'Rourke
- 11. 'The king of Scotland is a nobody'
- 12. Parma, Paris and Piedmont
- 13. War on two fronts
- 14. Distant horizons
- Epilogue: Old soldiers never die
- Appendix A: Text of Cuéllar's Carta
- Appendix B: Cuéllar's Carta and his views on the Irish
- Appendix C: Military salaries and Cuéllar's income
- Appendix D: Affidavit from Seville (1584)
- Appendix E: Ten documents
- Bibliography
- Index