Spanish Armada: Great fleet sent by Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England in conjunction with a Spanish army from Flanders.

西班牙无敌舰队：1588年西班牙国王腓力二世为会同西班牙陆军从法兰德斯入侵英国而派遣的庞大舰队。

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King Philip of Spain was very religious and thought Protestants to be evil and that it was his Catholic duty to rid the world of England and every other protestant.

西班牙菲立浦国王是虔诚的天主教徒，他认为新教徒都是邪恶的，他作为天主教徒的责任就是要消灭英国及其他地方的新教徒。

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Pope Gregory VII may have humiliated the Emperor Henry IV, as Innocent III later humiliated Philip Augustus of France and King John of England.

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In 1588, the Spanish Armada of about 125 ships sent by Philip II to try to invade England was defeated by an English fleet under Lord Howard and Sir Francis Drake.

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