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Delayed by bad weather, the Armada is not sighted in England until

England · Warfare / Anglo-Spanish War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1588

Elizabeth I19 July 1588

Warfare / Anglo-Spanish War

Delayed by bad weather, the Armada is not sighted in England until July 19, when it appears off The Lizard in Cornwall, the news is conveyed to London by a sequence of beacons that had been constructed the length of the south coast of England

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Elizabeth I

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