Philip was finally able to defeat the Moorish invaders after a seven-year struggle. In addition, Philip II also took the neighboring Portugal along with discovering new worlds across the ocean. This caused Philip II to own three-fourths of the known world. Now with such an impressive resume Britain should have been an easy task, should have.
             As mentioned before Philip was an idealist, but Elizabeth I on the other hand was the complete opposite. Elizabeth II tried to avoid conflict at any cost because she knew how unstable and poor her country was. At first Philip II was not going to use force to overthrow England. He had a better idea in which he was going to try to marry Queen Elizabeth. He was going to try to kill two birds with one stone. First, have a cute wife with lots of power, and second, take over the Protestant England without a fight. However, Elizabeth I did not want to marry Philip II for reasons unknown. So instead of completely dumping Philip she would play on with him. She would sometimes pretend to like him for months, then put him off for a few more months, then back to liking him again. This went on for many years and so far her plan was working and conflict was avoided. That was until Philip had enough. He had enough of not only the refusing of marriage but of other reasons as well. While in the relationship, Elizabeth was doing extra things on the side. She gave permission to Sir Walter Raleigh to mark territory in the New World where Spain just so happened to be. This all together made Philip II very angry and he had no choice but to attack immediately.
             Now that the battle was certainly going to occur Britain needed to know exactly what they were up against. For one thing the Spaniards had a very high morale. They believed that they could not lose for they were fighting for God. That with God on their side he will ultimately pull them through to victory. Second, Spain had the basic six...