The Spanish Armada
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Howard's Defeat of the Spanish Fleet
The next major battle is at gravlin, around ten miles east of calais, on july 20 ninth. As before, the more manoeuverable english ships adopt the tactc of standing off from the spanish warships to avoid being boarded and to stay out of range of enemy cannon. They then close in rapidly to launch their own salvos. In fact, so intense is the english onslaught that they begin to run out of ammunition. The spanish, meanwhile, find retaliation increasingly problematic. Some have been bored off centre or are of the wrong calibre to take the available shot; others appear to have exploded on first use. Subsequent investigations of sunken spanish ships
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