Alonso de Bazán
Alonso de Bazán, son of Admiral Álvaro de Bazán the Elder, Marquis del Viso, and brother of the better known Admiral Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, was a Spanish naval commander during the Anglo–Spanish War (1585–1604) and the Eighty Years' War.[1][2]
Notable military actions[]
In 1588, he should have been part of a second fleet and give support to the great armada that was trying to invade England. After the failure of that fleet, he transported infantry troops to La Coruña and Lisbon, in preparation of an incoming English counter offensive.
In 1589, after the failure of the English "Invincible", commanded by Francis Drake, Alonso de Bazan go after the English fleet with his galleys, and managed to seize three ships of the retreating Drake's forces off Lisbon.[3]
In 1590, he transported some Tercio troops from the peninsula to France to help the catholics in their fight against the French protestants.
In 1591, September 9, his greatest military action of his career happens, the Battle of Flores, where a fleet of 55 vessels commanded by him fought and defeated the 22 ships fleet of Thomas Howard, 1st Count of Suffolk, who was trying to capture the Spanish treasure fleet.
In 1594, in the Azores, he defeated another English fleet, led by the Count of Cumberland, that was trying to attack the ships coming from America.
In 1597 he take part in another victory against the English fleet, the Essex-Raleigh Expedition.
In 1604 he died, being replaced by Admiral Luis Fajardo in his position left as captain general of the Navy of the Ocean Sea.[4]
References[]
- ^ Don Alonso de Bazán Archived 2012-12-31 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ "Alonso de Bazán Guzmán | Real Academia de la Historia". dbe.rah.es. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
- ^ González, Rodríguez; Ramón, Agustín (2002-09-19). "Una derrota de Drake ante Lisboa". Circulo Naval Español (in Spanish).
- ^ Leonard George Carr Laughton; Roger Charles Anderson; William Gordon Perrin (1969). The Mariner's Mirror. Society for Nautical Research. pp. 393, 395.
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