Alonso de Bazán
Alonso de Bazán, son of Admiral Álvaro de Bazán the Elder, Marquis del Viso, and brother of the better known Admiral Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, was a Spanish naval commander during the Anglo–Spanish War (1585–1604) and the Eighty Years' War.[1]
Notable military actions of his career
−In 1588, he should have been part of a second fleet and give support to the great armada that was trying to invade England. After the failure of that fleet, he transported infantry troops to La Coruña and Lisboa, in preparation of an incoming english counter offensive.
-In 1589, after the spectacular failure of the English "Invincible", commanded by the famous Francis Drake, in their attacks against La Coruña and Lisboa, Alonso de Bazan go after the fleet with his ships, and managed to sink the ship of captain Minshaw, who died in battle.
-In 1590, he transported some Tercios troops from the peninsula to France to help the catholics in their fight against the French protestants.
-In 1591, September 9, his greatest military action of his career happens, the Battle of Flores, where a fleet of 55 vessels commanded by him fought and defeated the 22 ships fleet of Thomas Howard, I Count of Suffolk, who was trying to capture the Spanish fleets and their treasures from America.
-In 1594, in the Azores, he humiliates the English navy again, defeating another fleet that was trying to attack the ships coming from America. This time, the English fleet was commanded by the Count of Cumberland.
-In 1597 he take part in another victory against the English fleet, the Essex-Raleigh Expedition.
-In 1604 he died, being replaced by Admiral Luis Fajardo in his position left as captain general of the Navy of the Ocean Sea.