To many English people this proved that God wanted them to win and there were pictures and medals made to celebrate this fact. However, an important reason why the English were able to defeat the Armada was that the wind blew the Spanish ships northwards. While the Armada tried to get in touch with the Spanish army, the English ships attacked fiercely. The Armada was difficult to attack because it sailed in a ‘crescent’ shape. The English were worried about the threat of invasion and they attacked the Spanish ships as they sailed along the Channel, but the Armada was so strong that most of the ships reached Calais safely. He also had a political reason to go to war with England because Spain ruled the Netherlands, but the people there were rebelling against Spanish control and England had been helping them.
This was done in the name of religion, because England had become Protestant and no longer accepted the Pope as the head of the Church Spain was Catholic and the Pope had encouraged Philip to try to make England become Catholic again.
In 1588, King Philip II of Spain sent an armada (a fleet of ships) to collect his army from the Netherlands, where they were fighting, and take them to invade England.
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