[DOC] [TLE] Spanish Armada - Wikipedia [PAR] The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Corua 
in August 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with the ... 
1580, National Portrait Gallery, London. Mary's death in 1558 ... The English 
made a vain effort to intercept the Armada in the Bay of Biscay. On 6 July 
negotiations... [DOC] [TLE] Alonso Prez de Guzmn, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia - Wikipedia [PAR] Don Alonso Prez de Guzmn y de Ziga-Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina 
Sidonia (10 ... Don Alonso made no serious effort to save his mother-in-law Ana 
de ... Medina Sidonia's behavior as a fleet commander in the ensuing series of 
fights... [DOC] [TLE] The Spanish Armada Overview II [PAR] With England in his grasp, Philip could command the Channel, encircle Spain's ... 
They did not like being made to be Catholic; in fact, Protestant ideas had taken 
root in ... In 1580, Philip II had annexed Portugal and added the ships from her ... 
Though a good general, Medina Sidonia had never been to sea before and when
... [DOC] [TLE] BBC - History - The Spanish Armada [PAR] Feb 17, 2011 ... If Philip had relegated the Empresa to the future in the early 1580s, the vacuum 
was ... The English had made two attempts to intercept the Armada in Iberian ... 
The Spanish admiral, the duke of Medina Sidonia, then took the... [DOC] [TLE] Medina Sidonia, Alonso Prez De Guzmn, 7th Duke of (15491615 ... [PAR] MEDINA SIDONIA, ALONSO PREZ DE GUZMN, 7TH DUKE OF (15491615) 
... of his coastal estates, and revenues from the county of Niebla made him the 
richest ... In summer 1580, he led the Andalusian militia to the peaceful conquest 
of the ... general of the Ocean Sea and command of the Armada waiting in Lisbon
. [DOC] [TLE] HISTORY OF SPAIN [PAR] From 1580 Spanish support is secretly given to Jesuit missionaries infiltrating 
English ... By May 1588 he has assembled a fleet of galleons. ... The Spanish 
commander, the duke of Medina Sidonia, cannot now return through the Channel
. [DOC] [TLE] The Appointment of the Duke of Medina Sidonia to the Command of ... [PAR] Austria as supreme commander at sea,6 and in 1580 he had apparently been 
proposed ... very general opinion that he will be made a member of the secret 
council and appointed ... MEDINA SIDONIA AND COMMAND OF THE ARMADA 
I99. [DOC] [TLE] Winds of Change: Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588.  Landsat ... [PAR] The Spanish vessels under Medina-Sidonia's command included huge 
Portuguese galleons, armed merchant ships, and boats built for the 
Mediterranean such... [DOC] [TLE] Sir Francis Drake Collection: H.P. Kraus and the Building of the ... [PAR] This Drake collection, assembled in only twelve years, complements the earlier 
gift with ... in 1580, in which he speculates on the route that Drake took around 
the world. ... Medina Sidonia was soon after appointed by the king to command 
the... [DOC] [TLE] THE CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION : Sir Francis Drake: A ... [PAR] The assembly of the passages in one continuous text suggests that the 
manuscript .... The expedition was commanded by one Francisco de Ulloa, with 
Hernn ..... William Bourne, A Regiment for the Sea (London, 1580), edited by 
E. G. R. Taylor ... The other endorsement, also in Medina Sidonia's autograph, is 
the Duke's... [DOC] [TLE] Spanish Armada defeated - Jul 29, 1588 - HISTORY.com [PAR] In the late 1580s, English raids against Spanish commerce and Queen Elizabeth 
I's ... The fleet was under the command of the Duke of Medina-Sidonia and ... 
Queen Elizabeth's decisive defeat of the Invincible Armada made England a... [DOC] [TLE] Alonso Perez de Guzman, duke de Medina-Sidonia | Spanish ... [PAR] Commander in chief of the Spanish Armada of 1588. A member of the noble and 
illustrious house of Guzmn, Medina-Sidonia became the ... the Portuguese (as 
Philip I, 158098), champion of the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation.

Question: Assembled in the 1580s, it was commanded by Medina Sidonia
Answer: the Spanish Armada