A theatrical interpretation of 'The Battle of Gravelines ' , an historical episode that had taken place over 200 years earlier. The narrative shows the morning after the English fireship attack on the Armada in Calais Roads , which found the Spaniards in a north-westerly gale of Dunkirk . A shift in the wind direction prevented many of their ships from being wrecked on the surrounding shoals. Saved from this disaster, they fought all day with the English and Dutch until they turned northwards, defeated , on their retreat around Scotland.
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Friday, 1 February 2013
' Defeat of the Spanish Armada , 8 August 1588. Philipe-Jacques de Loutherbourg (English painter of French origin 1740-1812) Oil on canvas, circa 1796. National Maritime Museum, Greenwhich.
A theatrical interpretation of 'The Battle of Gravelines ' , an historical episode that had taken place over 200 years earlier. The narrative shows the morning after the English fireship attack on the Armada in Calais Roads , which found the Spaniards in a north-westerly gale of Dunkirk . A shift in the wind direction prevented many of their ships from being wrecked on the surrounding shoals. Saved from this disaster, they fought all day with the English and Dutch until they turned northwards, defeated , on their retreat around Scotland.
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