The drama is set in 1588 during the attack of the Spanish Armada. A young boy - Thomas Harte - and his father have just arrived onboard one of the English ships. They are not expecting to stay ...

When Queen Mary I died, and with her England's brief and bloody restoration of Catholicism, she was replaced with Elizabeth I, who reimposed Protestantism. But Philip II of Spain, Mary's widower ...

During this period, Spain was the most powerful country in the known world. It had grown extremely wealthy due to its conquests in the New World (Central America), an area that was known as the ...

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, ...