Definition of Invincible armada

1. Noun. The great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588.

Exact synonyms: Spanish Armada
Generic synonyms: Armada

Lexicographical Neighbors of Invincible Armada

Inuits
Inuk
Inuktitut
Inula helenium
Inupiak
Inupiaq
Inupiatun
Inuvialuktun
Inuvik
Invar
Invention of the Cross
Inver-
Inverness
Inverness-shire
Invernesses
Invincible Armada
Invirase
Invisible Pink Unicorn
Invisible Pink Unicorns
Io
Ioannina
Ioannis
Iodamoeba
Iona
Ionesco
Ionia
Ionian
Ionian Island
Ionian Islands
Ionian Sea

Literary usage of Invincible armada

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of England by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"... of England—The invincible armada—Preparations in England—The armada arrives in the channel—Defeated— A parliament—Expedition against Portugal—Affairs of ..."

2. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"The invincible armada in 1588. 1. ' IT is wel knowen to all the worlde, how false all this relation is, and either falsly coloured by the letters remem- ..."

3. The History of England by Thomas Keightley (1839)
"The invincible armada.—Death and character of Leicester.—Affairs of France.—Naval enterprises.—Taking of Cadiz.—State of Ireland.—Essex sent thither. ..."

4. The History of Spain: From the Establishment of the Colony of Gades by the by Charles John Ann Hereford (1793)
"... his office of Governor General—Depredations of the Engli/h in America—Invincible Armada—Fate of it—Prince Maurice ..."

5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1890)
"THE invincible armada IN JAPAN. SECOND PAPER. THE American fleet separated in a storm. If our Japanese friends could have known it, and could have seen our ..."

6. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century by Leopold von Ranke (1875)
"THE invincible armada. AT this moment the war with the Spaniards—the resistance which the English auxiliaries offered to them in the Netherlands, ..."

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