This is the answer to the Spanish article on La derrota de la armada invencible.
First: of course the Armada should have been planned and led by the Marqúes de Santa Cruz, but as he was dead, it would have proved difficult, unless he had been strapped to one of his galleons’ masts, like El Cid was strapped dead on his horse during the final moments of the siege of Valencia.
Second: of course the Armada should not have been led by the Duque de Medina Sidonia, who by his own admission did not know one end of a ship’s cannon from the other; had no knowledge of navigation; thought nothing of English ships, crews, captains or abilities, calling them ‘piratical pigs’.
It is often forgotten that these two vitally important countries, one massive in size, the other massive in resources and armed might, were in one way or the other involved in fighting wars with each other during a period of eighteen years at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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