Four Revolutions that Made the Spanish Empire's Navy the Best of the 15th and 16th Centuries

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It was 1574 when Philip II commissioned an entire master of the Tercios field, Don Julián Romero, to take over 75 ships and storm the port of Middelburg, in the Netherlands. The adventure ended in a shocking disaster, but he left a sentence for the memory of the official battle: «I told His Excellency that I am a land soldier, not a sailor. Give me a hundred fleets and it will not go much better». The episode does not surprise Guillermo Nicieza …