At the time of the armada launch Spain was the most powerful nation in the world. The country controlled all the known Americas exept Brazil, Portugal, a greater part of Italy and the Low Countries seventeen separate provinces. PhillipII had been also the titular king of England because of his marriage to Elizabeth I 's sister, Mary I. This made for extremely tense relations between the nations because of the differences in religion. Spain was a Catholic nation, England was a newly reformed Protestant one. The war had been stirred by Elizabeth's greatest weapon, Sir Francis Drake. Drake was a heady pirate, infamous for
for his captures on the seven seas in the name of her majesty.
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for his captures on the seven seas in the name of her majesty.
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