The Struggle for the South Atlantic: The Armada of the Strait, 1581-84

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The Struggle for the South Atlantic: The Armada of the Strait, 1581-84 is written by Carla Rahn Phillips and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1315406136 (ISBN 10) and 9781315406138 (ISBN 13).

This book contains the annotated translation of an account of Spain’s Armada of the Strait, which traveled to Brazil and the Strait of Magellan under Don Diego Flores de Valdés in 1581–84. 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. The voyage came at a crucial juncture in global politics, when Philip II of Spain had claimed the throne of Portugal and its empire, and Francis Drake’s daring peacetime raids had challenged the dominance of Spain and Portugal in the Americas.