Sentence examples for * armada in from inspiring English sources

It was this new, swift-sailing navy that withstood the Spanish Armada in 1588.

Some of them are rumoured to have come from nuts from the wrecks of the Spanish Armada in 1592.

So Hughes has Victoria crowned in 1840, the battle of El Alamein (not a "defeat of Italian forces") in 1943, and the Spanish Armada in the late 1620s.

With the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, the Church of England no longer faced the possibility of the restoration of Roman Catholicism in the country.

There Lamoraal, count of Egmond, who was fighting for Spain, defeated the French in 1558, and the English scattered the Spanish Armada in 1588 offshore from it.

The defeat of Philip II's Armada in 1588, though less disastrous to Spain's seapower than commonly assumed, contributed to opening the way for English colonization of America.

Twelve-year-old twin sisters Fitriani Sabatini and Fitriana Sabrina are among the top ranked players in their age group when they appear in tournaments such as the New Armada event in Central Java.

Look yonder and you can envision the Spanish Armada bringing in Don Juan del Aguila's marines to join with Red Hugh O'Donnell in the failed 1601 siege of the British stronghold of Kinsale.

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A Groove Armada gig in my first month put a stop to the somber reflective period.

As night falls and the running lights go on, the giant armada twinkles in the dark — a Bud Light Hong Kong.