Author: Phillips, Carla Rahn.
Title: The struggle for the South Atlantic. The Armada of the Strait, 1581-1584.
Description: [Abingdon], Routledge, 2016. XIV,203 pp. 7 b./w. maps. Orig. publisher's blue cloth over boards, lettered gilt to spine, gilt vignette to upper board. 8vo. (Works issued by The Hakluyt Society, Third series, no. 31).Commissioned by The Hakluyt Society, London. - - The Armada of the Strait under Don Diego Flores de Valdés in 1581-84 came at a crucial juncture in global politics. Philip II of Spain had assumed the crown of Portugal and its overseas empire, and Francis Drake’s daring peacetime raids had challenged the dominance of Spain and Portugal in the Americas. The armada was intended to ensure the loyalty of Portuguese Brazil; bolster its defences against hostile native peoples, and English and French pirates and interlopers; and fortify and settle the Strait of Magellan to prevent further incursions into the Pacific. Pedro de Rada, the official scribe of the armada, kept a detailed, neutral chronicle of the venture which remained in private hands until 1999 but is now held in the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California. It is published here for the first time.

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