Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Brittany Campaign" in English language version.
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Five tercios participated in the Enterprise of England. The restructuring process of the surviving companies involved the reform of many of them and the appointment of new captains.
The Armada arrived in Ferrol on October 8 from Lisbon, where it had been sent from Santander, on July 22, taking on board the two tercios assigned to it at that time. The defensive vacuum that his departure caused on the north coast was covered by Don Juan del Águila's tercio, who first came to the aid of La Coruña and then was sent to the Cuatro Villas as a garrison.
A rout occurred after most of the ships dropped anchor; only the skill of their crews and a timely change of wind saved them from running aground the next day.
During those months, the complaints from the Council were very frequent when verifying that some decisions of great importance were adopted by the King and his entourage with hardly any intervention from a body that, in theory, had important powers in this regard.
Commissioner Diego Maldonado acted as Philip II's ambassador in Nantes. His letter is dated June 20, 1590.
Two of the four galleys were lost, one of them was the lead ship that caught fire in January 1593 with a toll of 160 dead amongst the burned and drowned.
This refers to the action of September 1591, in the Third Division, in which this galleon distinguished itself in the capture of the "Revenge", the flagship of Howard's squadron, on board which Vice-Admiral Richard Grenville perished.
As is well known, when the castle of Blaye was besieged by a Huguenot army, the squadrons of Pedro de Zubiaur and Juan de Villaviciosa came to its aid, through the Garonne estuary, and, after several clashes with enemy ships, managed to disembark infantry causing the disbandment of the besieging forces which fled, leaving more than 800 dead in the field. Taking advantage of the confusion, Villaviciosa went to Bordeaux where, through a daring coup de main, he managed to capture a galleot which he brought to Spain.
Don Diego Brochero said that 'in summer they do not sail because in the two months that we have traveled together, the flyboats and the galleys, we have not come across a ship on these coasts'.
The seized ships and their cargo were put up for sale in the ports where they were taken, generally El Pasaje or in Blavet itself.
Apart from those that took place by accident, only the capture of Zubiaur's almiranta can be highlighted, when in the commander's absence they had to face English and Dutch ships in the waters of the channel, without Juan Pérez de Mutio, who was in command of the formation, distinguishing himself on that occasion.
Pedro de Zubiaur was always proud of the flags captured from the enemy in the battles he had with Raleigh's squadron in 1592 when, under the command of Don Diego de Bazán, they faced four English squadrons in the waters of the Terceiras.
Shortly afterwards, the mutiny of the tercio would take place in which they came to arrest the maestre de campo himself whose disastrous performance would later send him to prison.
The Armada arrived in Ferrol on October 8 from Lisbon, where it had been sent from Santander, on July 22, taking on board the two tercios assigned to it at that time. The defensive vacuum that his departure caused on the north coast was covered by Don Juan del Águila's tercio, who first came to the aid of La Coruña and then was sent to the Cuatro Villas as a garrison.