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El Gran Grifon my watercolour painting from 1988 for article about the Spanish Armada in Scotland.

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2022-09-28

Battle is joined. 1588 the English Fleet first engaged with the at Eddystone Rocks off the coast of Plymouth. After a fierce but inconclusive naval skirmish; Francis Drake turned his ship 'Revenge' back to loot the abandoned Spanish ships at nightfall.

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2022-07-21

🌊#OTD in 28 May 1588, the began to disembark from Lisbon to invade England. Due to its size, the fleet took two days to leave port. The fleet was composed of 132 ships, with 7,000 sailors and 17,000 soldiers. In command was the Duke of Medina Sidonia.

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2022-05-28

There's a storm coming... in 1588; the SPANISH ARMADA, led by the Duke of Medina-Sidonia, departed Lisbon to invade England...

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2021-05-28

Spanish Armada wrecks in Ireland watercolours from 1988. La Trinidad Valencera and La Girona (well known wrecks). Third wreck was one of these secret location photos I was given with no wreck name. So don't actually know where in Ireland this one is.

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2020-12-20

Spanish Armada Galleass the 'Girona' wrecked off Dunluce Castle (Ireland) in 1588.

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2020-03-17

Jan 1589: A 20-day trek from led Capt Cuéllar to Lacada Point, wreck-site of La Girona –‘I reached the area where Alonso de Leyva_ and others were shipwrecked_I went to the huts of some savages_they told me harrowing things about our people who'd drowned’

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2020-01-25

Spanish Armada vessel El Gran Grifon wrecked on Fair Isle. Crew shipped to Anstruther in Fife. For some reason Captain's chess was left at Newbattle Abbey in Dalkeith and is still there today.

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2019-12-16

“The defeat of the Spanish Armada” by Philiippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg. Painted two centuries after the Battle of Gravelines that it depicts, it is over dramatic - but I do still like it.

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2019-12-13

Spanish Armada wrecks in Ireland watercolours from 1988. La Trinidad Valencera and La Girona (well known wrecks). Third wreck was one of these secret location photos I was given with no wreck name. So don't actually know where in Ireland this one is.

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2019-11-07

Spanish Armada in Scotland in 1588. Wreck off Tantallon Castle. Wreck off St Andrews Castle and El Gran Grifon jammed against the Fair Isle. Watercolour paintings from 1988.

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2019-11-07

Survivors of the shipwrecks were ordered to be killed by the English or were robbed by locals. Francisco de Cuellar's letter is a record of his experience. Of the 130 Spanish ships which sailed to England, about half returned to Spain. https://t.co/3to4bUXB6a

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2019-08-09

Spanish Armada in Scottish waters 1588. Tantallon Castle. El Gran Grifon jammed on Fair Isle. Crew shipped to Anstruther in Fife. Grifon Captain's chest is still held at Newbattle Abbey in Dalkeith. He may have stayed there for a time.

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2019-05-28

The How Tudor England was poorly prepared for foreign invaders in 1588... https://t.co/suKmg8frQp

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2017-09-27