The Spanish Armada by Hutchinson Robert

Author:Hutchinson, Robert [Hutchinson, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780297866381
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2013-04-10T23:00:00+00:00

If the Vatican was an unreliable source of loans, there were always bankers. That August, Philip borrowed ‘one million of gold’ from Genoa at nearly 25 per cent interest, having already pawned his wife’s jewellery.

First reports from any conflict frequently contain misleading information as a consequence of slow communications, wishful thinking, or just the impenetrable fog of war. The ever-optimistic Mendoza in Paris excitedly informed Philip on 9 August of a great victory over the English fleet the week before, enclosing a letter from Isoardo Capello from Rouen claiming that the Armada had ‘sunk fifteen of the enemy’s ships, including the flagship’ and that the survivors had retreated towards Dover. The king replied: ‘As you consider the news to be true, I am hopeful that it will prove to be so, particularly as the author claims to have been an eye witness.’ He wrote to Medina Sidonia:

This news is asserted in France to be true . . . I hope to God that it may be so and that you have known how to follow up the victory and make the most of it, pursuing the enemy actively without giving him the opportunity of reforming and pushing on until you join hands with my nephew, the duke [of Parma]. This being done, it may be hoped that with God’s help, the enemy’s fear of us and our men’s courage, other victories will have followed.

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