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Approximately how many Spanish died in the failed 1588 Armada campaign?
About 11,000 of the 30,000-man Spanish force died — most in shipwrecks on the Scottish and Irish coasts, and several thousand more executed by the English Irish administration after washing ashore.
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The Catholic Spanish Fleet of 130 Ships That Sailed for England in May 1588 and Was Wrecked Around Scotland and Ireland by the Following October Philip II of Spain dispatched 130 ships under the Duke of Medina Sidonia in May 1588 to invade England, depose Elizabeth I, and reverse the English Reformation. The English fleet defeated the Armada at Gravelines on 8 August 1588. The surviving Spanish ships were driven north around Scotland by storms; many wrecked on the western Irish coast. Approximately 11,000 Spanish sailors died, against fewer than 100 English casualties in combat.
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