Defeat of the Spanish Armada
“The English Channel off Gravelines, August 8, 1588. Drake's nimble galleons rake the towering Spanish line with broadsides. Foreground shows fire ships drifting into the Armada anchorage and panicked Spaniards cutting cables; midground reveals Howard's flagship Ark Royal in close action; a rising gale and dark squalls boil over the gray channel.”
