The Spanish Armada
“. . me 30,000 ducats.
Antonio de Taso Aquereis, commander of two hundred Spanish troops, writing home from Lisbon.1 Santa Cruz, the commander of the Armada, died in Lisbon on 9 February 1588 from ‘ship’s fever’ (or typhus) after being purged and bled for eleven days by his physicians. The sixty-two-year-old admiral had been exhausted both by his struggles to bring the Spanish fleet up to a full war footing and by the torrent of instructions from a fixated, pedantic and bureaucratic monarch ...who sought to micromanage every detail of the invasion plans. Some whispered that the malicious criticism of the admiral prevalent at Philip’s court had also contributed to his death.2 Few mourned the passing of this egotistical grandee of the ocean: only four persons accompanied the coffin to his grave in the parish church of El Viso in Córdoba.3 Two days later, Philip appointed Spain’s premier duke, Don Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, ‘el Bueno’ [the Good], Seventh Duke of Medina Sidonia, as Santa Cruz’s successor and his captain-general of the ocean.MoreLess
Antonio de Taso Aquereis, commander of two hundred Spanish troops, writing home from Lisbon.1 Santa Cruz, the commander of the Armada, died in Lisbon on 9 February 1588 from ‘ship’s fever’ (or typhus) after being purged and bled for eleven days by his physicians. The sixty-two-year-old admiral had been exhausted both by his struggles to bring the Spanish fleet up to a full war footing and by the torrent of instructions from a fixated, pedantic and bureaucratic monarch ...who sought to micromanage every detail of the invasion plans. Some whispered that the malicious criticism of the admiral prevalent at Philip’s court had also contributed to his death.2 Few mourned the passing of this egotistical grandee of the ocean: only four persons accompanied the coffin to his grave in the parish church of El Viso in Córdoba.3 Two days later, Philip appointed Spain’s premier duke, Don Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, ‘el Bueno’ [the Good], Seventh Duke of Medina Sidonia, as Santa Cruz’s successor and his captain-general of the ocean.MoreLess
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