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Comments by "HaJo Os." (@hajoos.8360) on "Last Stand of the Revenge - Against the Odds" video.
The main spanish problem was the useless king. The uncle of this admiral in the vid was admiral Álvaro de Bazán, who won the battle of Punta Delgada in 1582 outnumbered by european privateers, the first time in history only using artillery to defeat the enemy, which gave Britain the example how to organize the home-fleet in the future. Staying in Lisbon, when Drake attacked Cadiz in 1587, Álvaro de Bazán was not supported by the spanish king and died early, it is written. He would have been a more difficult task to crash him in the channel in 1588 for the lucky Brits. In Grenville's last battle the Spaniards had still not understand the inventions of their former brillant admiral. Grenville's raid to the Azores was badly organized. They knew that they had to wait for the spanish silver-transports, and did not managed a frequent supply-support from Portsmouth. As Drachinifel mentioned most historians are wrong, judging the 1588 spanish defeat in the channel as the major point of lost spanish sea-superiourity. This assumption is false. The Spaniards lost their domination in 1639 at the battle of the Downs when the dutch admiral Tromp defeated the Spaniards heavily and blockaded the neutral english fleet, which was present in english waters.
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