The end of sir Francis Drake
After Drake's resounding failure in the assault on the Canary Islands and San Juan de Puerto Rico, the corsair set sail for Panama with what was left of his fleet, but he did not count on
The humiliating defeat that claimed Drake’s life, the English national hero
Source:ABC After the monumental failure of "the English Contraarmada", the pirate Francis Drake fell into political ostracism for six years until in 1595 he had the opportunity to make amends in the Caribbean. There he was humiliated by
María Pita, the woman from La Coruña who confronted the pirate Drake
Source:Revista de Historia Known for his plundering of silver from Spanish ships, Francis Drake was a much-feared English explorer in the 16th century. In 1589, after having plundered the port of Nombre de Dios in Panama, the city of
The truth about the English Armada, in response to Geoffrey Parker
The writer Luis Gorrochategui, author of La Contra Armada, responds to the statements of the renowned British Hispanist in which he affirms that "the English Counter Armada of 1589 did not lose a single ship".
Manifesto against British plagiarism: the list of Spanish heroes they have tried to supplant
Source:El Confidencial There was an empire whose deeds and achievements have been conveniently disfigured to glorify their own, and which did much more than strip its adversaries naked. Those who today throw stones and do not
This is how Spain crushed the Royal Navy in 1591: the feat England wants us to forget
A view on the controversial episode of the capture of the Revenge, that the British have always wanted to be the final act of one of the most important ships in British naval history, and not the reckless act it was.
And they wanted to conquer it in 4 hours… the humiliating English defeat of the Spanish Empire at Las Palmas
Source:ABC In 1595, the English corsair swooped on the city with the aim of plundering the Spaniards; he was scalded. The other day I was, how naive me, browsing through a well-known series platform (let's call it
The battle of Quintero 1587: Confrontation and expulsion of the pirate Thomas Cavendish
Source:hispanismo.cl Thomas Cavendish (1555-1592) was from a wealthy noble family in England, but due to his adventurous and playboyish character he lost all his inheritance. In his eagerness to recover wealth, he obtained a privateer's licence from the British
Gabriel de Castilla, the discoverer of Antarctica
Source:Tras la última frontera Gabriel de Castilla was a Spanish navigator and explorer born in Palencia between 1570 and 1577. His parents were Alonso de Cárdenas y Castilla and Leonor de la Mata. When he was still very young he
Counter-Armada, the Spanish revenge that England concealed
Source:La Razón Luis Gorrochategui presents in a book the "greatest Spanish victory over the British." A milestone in which first María Pita and her fellows rejected the charge of the English ships in La Coruña, and later they forced them
My tribute to the Great Armada
Source:Sonrisas en el camino Nobody dies forever. They say that nobody dies forever, that death does not exist as long as someone remembers us, as long as someone mentions us or has us in mind. They say that death
The BBC disqualifies the official English version on the defeat of the Invincible Armada
Source:Nueva Revista The defeat of the Gran Armada (1588) marks the culmination of the reign of Elizabeth I and the founding moment in British history. But the English version of this event, according to a documentary now released
Menéndez de Avilés, the fierce Spaniard who founded the oldest city in the United States against all odds
Source:ABC OIn the name of Philip II, the Asturian Pedro Menéndez de Avilés arrived in the summer of 1565 on the coast of Florida, a territory that occupied not only the current state of that name but the
The colonisation of California by Spain
Source:A orillas del Potomac It was only logical that from the end of the 19th century until the 1980s, in California and in the country as a whole, Fray Junípero Serra was considered the "founding father of California".
The Black Legend in 1898: Spain, United States’ most hated country
Source:ABC The negative image about the Hispanic has its roots in the world hegemony of the Spanish Empire. Even its downfall as a great power was accompanied by a large propaganda campaign against it. In the
The myth of English piracy: less than 1% of Spanish galleons were captured
Source:ABC Anglo-Saxon literature and propaganda have exaggerated the episodes of a war that Spain won. Between 1540 and 1650, of the 11,000 ships that made the America-Spain route, only 107 were lost due to pirate attacks.
The Counter Armada: the great English failure
Source:Revista de Historia Contra Armada: Spanish and British delegations signing the Treaty of London favourable to Spain. The English Invincible or Counter Armada was an invasion fleet sent to the Iberian Peninsula by Queen Elizabeth I
The Bank of England and the destruction of Hispanic America
Source:Hispanoamérica Unida “Great Britain destroyed the Spains of America, keeping them subjugated in the 21st century, through fierce neocolonialism and economic and financial dependence (…) This neocolonialism causes the comodum, that is, the profits, to go to London;
Balmis: The Expedition that Saved the World
Source:ABC In recent weeks, unfortunately and for extraordinary reasons, we have become accustomed to hearing the term "Operation Balmis", the largest military operation, deployed in peacetime, to try to curb and control the accursed Covid-19. But why was it