Philip of spain had once hoped to return to England to Catholicism by marrying Queen Elizabeth. She refused him, so he decided to change England's religion by force. In 1588, Philip assembled a fleet of 130 ships and sent them to pick up solders from the Netherlands and invade England. The great Spanish 'Armada' sailed across the English Channel, but never reached its goal. The remnants of the Armada struggled into Spanish ports during autumn 1588. The defeat of the Armada did not end the war with Spain - it dragged on for another sixteen years, Elizabeth had a portrait painted to publicise her 'famous victory'. Until recently, both English and Spanish historians believed that the Armada was the time when Spain's fortunes changed and England became great. Modern history, however, think that the failure of the Armada though a setback was not the death-blow to Philip it was made out to be at the time.
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Mary Queen of Scots was not a good ruler. In 1568 she was forced to flee Scotland and find refuge in England, throwing herself on the mercy of Elizabeth I.
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