Alonso Perez de Guzman Biography and Timeline

Armada Fails to Reach Parma Transport Force

Medina Sidonia cannot establish the protected anchorage needed to embark Parma's army from Flanders.

Role range: 1585-1604

Battle of Gravelines

Perez de Guzman is chased by 2 English ships to the Firth of Forth

Role range: 1585-1604

Battle of Gravelines

A change in wind direction enables Sidona to flee north west

Role range: 1585-1604

Battle of Gravelines

The Spanish Armada is defeated by an English naval force under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake off the coast of Gravelines, now in France. Escapes the English by rounding the Orkneys then returning to Spain

Role range: 1585-1604

Blockade of Flemish Ports

The Armada is forced to return to Spain via the North Sea & the Atlantic. 29-30 July, cannot break the blockade where the Armada must refit & obtain ammunition

Role range: 1585-1604

Flemish Port Access Denied

The blockade prevents the Armada from using the Flemish coast for the refit and ammunition it needs before returning toward Spain

Role range: 1585-1604

Gravelines Fighting Forces Armada North

After fighting off Flanders, the Armada is forced northward and abandons the planned junction with Parma.

Role range: 1585-1604

Captain

Appointed Leader of the Armada,

Role range: 1585-1604

Mobilization

The Spanish fail to join up due to the Dutch "sea beggars". Spanish ships outnumber English 2:1

Role range: 1585-1604

Spanish Armada, 1st

Hopes to march through Kent to London & wait for a Catholic rising

Role range: 1585-1604

Spanish Armada, 1st

Plans to join Parma at the "Cape of Margate" & carry his army from Flanders to England

Role range: 1585-1604

Captain

Appointed Commander of the Armada

Captain

Appointed Captain of the Ocean

Capture of Cadiz

Loses Cadiz to the English