Umm does any one know about the war between england and spain(1585-1604)?

Question: Umm does any one know about the war between england and spain(1585-1604)!?
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The Anglo–Spanish War (1585–1604) was an intermittent conflict between the kingdoms of Spain and England, which was never formally declared!. The war was punctuated by widely separated battles, and began with England's unsuccessful military expedition in 1585 to the Netherlands under the command of the Earl of Leicester in support of the resistance of the Estates General to Habsburg rule!.

The English enjoyed victories at Cádiz in 1587, and over the Spanish Armada in 1588, but lost the initiative upon the repulse of the English Armada in 1589 before La Coru?a and Lisbon!. Two further Spanish armadas were sent but were frustrated in their objectives owing to adverse weather!.

In the decade following the defeat of the Armada, Spain strengthened its navy and was thereafter very successful in defending its transport of precious metals from the Americas!. England was on the losing end of most of the subsequent battles, but the war became deadlocked around the turn of the century during campaigns in Brittany and Ireland!. The war was brought to an end with the Treaty of London, negotiated in 1604 between representatives of Philip III and the new Scottish king of England, James I!. Spain and England agreed to cease their military interventions in Ireland and the Spanish Netherlands, respectively, and the English renounced high seas piracy!. Both parties had achieved some of their aims, but each of their treasuries had almost been exhausted in the process!.

War broke out in 1585!. Drake sailed for the West Indies and sacked Santo Domingo, Cartagena de Indias, and San Agustín in Florida!. England joined the Eighty Years' War on the side of the Dutch Protestant United Provinces, led in revolt by William the Silent, and against Spain!. Philip II planned an invasion of England, but in April 1587 his preparations suffered a setback when Drake burned 37 Spanish ships in harbour at Cádiz!. In the same year, the execution of Mary I of Scotland on 28 February outraged Catholics in Europe, and her claim on the English throne passed (by her own deed of will) to Philip!. On 29 July, he obtained Papal authority to overthrow Elizabeth, who had been excommunicated by Pope Pius V, and place whomever he chose on the throne of England!.

For the English, the continuing, increasingly unsuccessful war with Spain delayed English settlement in North America until the early Stuart period!. This enabled Spain to consolidate its still vulnerable New World empire which was to last another two centuries during which it would remain the most important!. Spain had been able to effectively deny the Atlantic sea lanes to English colonial efforts until England had agreed to most Spanish conditions!. However England remained true to the Protestant revolution!.

Spain remained Europe's dominant power well into the 17th century, when its decline began decades later with defeats on land against France in the Thirty Years' War and at sea with the rise of Dutch naval power!. While the Armada defeat did not enable England to supplant Spain as the pre-eminent naval power, nor to engage in substantial American colonization, it did serve as an inspiration to later generations, particularly during the Anglo-French naval clashes of the 18th century, when Britain emerged as one of Europe's leading sea powers and colonizing nations after the Seven Years' War (1756-1763)!.

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