A colonel in the reserve reveals the last time the Spanish Tercios invaded England: "It has never happened again"

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A colonel in the reserve reveals the last time the Spanish Tercios invaded England: "It has never happened again"

The surprise was as great as the glories that Don Felipe II amassed by land and sea... and because the air forces did not exist! On August 2, 1595, His Gracious British Majesty saw four galleys with imperial flag depositing on the coasts of Penzance, to the south-west of Perfida Albion, three companies of archabuceros. About four hundred soldiers of the fearsome – because they were – Spanish Tercios with a clear objective: to sow chaos in enemy …