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The Battle of Bayona Islands, also known as the Battle of Bayona Bay, was a naval engagement that took place in early 1590, off Bayona Islands (present-day Cíes Islands), near
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(or Baiona) and
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, between a small Spanish naval force commanded by Captain Don
Pedro de Zubiaur Pedro de Zubiaur, Zubiaurre or Çubiaurre (1540 – 3 August 1605) was a Spanish naval officer, general of the Spanish Navy, distinguished for his achievements in the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604). Biography Born into a seafaring family fro ...
, and an Anglo-Dutch
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of 14 ships, during the Eighty Years' War, and in the context of the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) and the
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.''En el IV Centenario del fallecimiento de Pedro Zubiaur, un marino vasco del siglo XVI''
Itsas Memoria. Untzi Museo Naval. San Sebastián 2006."/> After several hours of hard combat, the Spanish naval force composed of three
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s achieved a great success, and the Anglo-Dutch fleet was totally defeated.''En el IV Centenario del fallecimiento de Pedro Zubiaur, un marino vasco del siglo XVI''
Itsas Memoria. Untzi Museo Naval. San Sebastián 2006."/> The flagship of the Dutch was boarded and captured, including another six ships more.''En el IV Centenario del fallecimiento de Pedro Zubiaur, un marino vasco del siglo XVI''
Itsas Memoria. Untzi Museo Naval. San Sebastián 2006."/> Finally, the rest of the Dutch fleet was forced to surrender.''Rincones De Historia Española''. Arsenal/Prado p. 166 Shortly after, Pedro de Zubiaur arriving at Ferrol, along with the captured ships, with great surprise for the Spanish authorities of the port.''En el IV Centenario del fallecimiento de Pedro Zubiaur, un marino vasco del siglo XVI''
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See also

* Cies Islands *
English Armada The English Armada ( es, Invencible Inglesa, lit=English Invincible), also known as the Counter Armada or the Drake–Norris Expedition, was an attack fleet sent against Spain by Queen Elizabeth I of England that sailed on 28 April 1589 during ...
* Battle of the Strait of Gibraltar (1590) *
Siege of Rheinberg (1586–1590) The siege of Rheinberg 1586–1590, also known as the capture of Rheinberg of 1590, took place at the strategic Cologne enclave of Rheinberg (present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), one of the principal crossing-points over the Rhine on t ...
*
French Wars of Religion The French Wars of Religion is the term which is used in reference to a period of civil war between French Catholics and Protestants, commonly called Huguenots, which lasted from 1562 to 1598. According to estimates, between two and four mi ...
* Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)


Notes


References

* Arsenal, León./Prado, Fernando. ''Rincones De Historia Española''. Editorial EDAF S.L. Madrid 2008. * Fernández Duro, Cesáreo (1898). ''Armada Española desde la unión de los reinos de Castilla y Aragón.'' Vol. III. Instituto de Historia y Cultura Naval. Madrid.
''Extractos de las juntas celebradas por la Real Sociedad Bascongada de los amigos del país, en la villa de Bilbao por julio de 1790''.
Vitoria. 1790. * Gracia Rivas, Manuel
''En el IV Centenario del fallecimiento de Pedro Zubiaur, un marino vasco del siglo XVI''
Itsas Memoria. Untzi Museo Naval. San Sebastián 2006. * Rodríguez González, Agustín Ramón (2006). ''Victorias por Mar de los Españoles''. Biblioteca de Historia. Grafite Ediciones. Madrid.


External links


Biografía de Don Pedro de Zubiaur
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