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Definition of Invincible armada
1. Noun. The great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Invincible Armada
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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