Table of Contents

The years 1593-1590; the year 1595; Drake and Hawkins' last voyage; Cadiz or Calais?; the Treaties of Greenwich and the Triple Alliance; the Cadiz expedition gets away; the sack of Cadiz; the aftermath of Cadiz; the 1596 Armada; plans and preparations for 1597; gales and frustrations; the islands voyage and the 1557 Armada; the parting of the ways; the peace of Vervins; after Vervins; Cumberland and Van der Does; the invisible Armada and trouble with neutrals; an army for Ireland; Essex in Ireland; conference at Boulogne; Mountjoy in Ireland, 1600; the Essex Rising and the 1601 Parliament; Ostend and Kinsale; last encounters.

Reviews

`Professor Wernham succeds in capturing the excitement and paranoia of those times both for the generak and the academic reader in a fascinating and entertaining account of this particularly crucial period of England.'
British Bulletin of Publications
`a lucidly, even effortlessly, written account of military operations and diplomacy. Wernham's command of his sources, particularly of the State Papers, is the product of a lifetime's scholarship, and will probably never be equalled.'
Book Reviews EHR
`Wernham's book has the overwhelming merit of understanding and expounding the complexity of the problems facing the English state. ... The diplomatic and military history of the years after the Armadas will not need to be written again for a long time. Wernham's account, based on a lifetime's study of the archives, is scholarly, shrewd and lucid.'
History Today
`This is an intelligent and well-documented telling, in which the author weaves together matters of obvious and peripheral diplomatic concern, res gestae, and individual personality and agency.'
Paul A. Fideler, Lesley College, The Historian