Battle of the Bay of Biscay (1592)
The Battle of the Bay of Biscay of 1592 was a naval engagement that took place in waters of the Bay of Biscay, in November 1592, between a Spanish naval force of 5 flyboats commanded by Captain Don Pedro de Zubiaur and an English convoy of 40 ships, supported by a 6-warship squadron, during the Anglo-Spanish War and the French Wars of Religion.[Rincones De Historia Española. Arsenal/Prado p. 166"/> The Spanish force led by Captain Zubiaur, despite being outnumbered, engaged the English ships, achieving a resounding success.]
The next year, on 18 April, in the same waters, another English naval force, commanded by Peter Houghton, was defeated by Zubiaur's naval forces off the coasts of Blaye, a town besieged by land and sea by Protestant forces in the context of the French Wars of Religion.
