The Battle of Bayona Islands, also known as the Battle of Bayona Bay, was a naval engagement that took place in early 1590, off Bayona Islands (present-day

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), near Bayona (or Baiona) and

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, between a small Spanish naval force commanded by Captain Don

Pedro de Zubiaur Pedro de Zubiaur, Zubiaurre or Çubiaurre (1540 – 3 August 1605) was a Spanish naval officer and engineer, general of the Spanish Navy, distinguished for his achievements in the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604). Biography Born into a seafari ...

, and an Anglo-Dutch

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of 14 ships, during the

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, and in the context of the

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and the

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.''En el IV Centenario del fallecimiento de Pedro Zubiaur, un marino vasco del siglo XVI''
Itsas Memoria. Untzi Museo Naval. San Sebastián 2006."/> After several hours of hard combat, the Spanish naval force composed of three

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s achieved a great success, and the Anglo-Dutch fleet was totally defeated.''En el IV Centenario del fallecimiento de Pedro Zubiaur, un marino vasco del siglo XVI''
Itsas Memoria. Untzi Museo Naval. San Sebastián 2006."/> The flagship of the Dutch was boarded and captured, including another six ships more.''En el IV Centenario del fallecimiento de Pedro Zubiaur, un marino vasco del siglo XVI''
Itsas Memoria. Untzi Museo Naval. San Sebastián 2006."/> Finally, the rest of the Dutch fleet was forced to surrender.''Rincones De Historia Española''. Arsenal/Prado p. 166 Shortly after, Pedro de Zubiaur arriving at Ferrol, along with the captured ships, with great surprise for the Spanish authorities of the port.''En el IV Centenario del fallecimiento de Pedro Zubiaur, un marino vasco del siglo XVI''
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References

* Arsenal, León./Prado, Fernando. ''Rincones De Historia Española''. Editorial EDAF S.L. Madrid 2008. * Fernández Duro, Cesáreo (1898). ''Armada Española desde la unión de los reinos de Castilla y Aragón.'' Vol. III. Instituto de Historia y Cultura Naval. Madrid.
''Extractos de las juntas celebradas por la Real Sociedad Bascongada de los amigos del país, en la villa de Bilbao por julio de 1790''.
Vitoria. 1790. * Gracia Rivas, Manuel
''En el IV Centenario del fallecimiento de Pedro Zubiaur, un marino vasco del siglo XVI''
Itsas Memoria. Untzi Museo Naval. San Sebastián 2006. * Rodríguez González, Agustín Ramón (2006). ''Victorias por Mar de los Españoles''. Biblioteca de Historia. Grafite Ediciones. Madrid.

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Biografía de Don Pedro de Zubiaur
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