AN officer of the American navy has lately aroused widespread interest in the influence of sea power upon history. For England the subject has a very special significance. Supremacy at sea is the only ...

Readers who want a fast-paced account of how Elizabeth’s navy, led by such captains as Drake, Howard, and Frobisher, managed to defeat the Spanish Armada in battles fought in the English Channel, ...

THE ARMADA (443 pp.)—Garreft Mattingly—Houghton, Miffin ($6). Before the 130-odd ships that were the core of the Spanish Armada had been provisioned, searched for contraband women, and set creaking ...

All the crucial naval battles in the history of Europe except two—the crushing of the Spanish Armada, and Jutland—have been fought on one piece of water. It is not even dignified with the name of ...

Let’s say this for Catholic Spain’s King Phillip II, the man who in 1588 sent the Spanish Armada against the English: He had a devout Catholic’s faith in Divine Providence. So sure was he of God’s ...