Spanish victories over England?

There have been many but obviously in England they would not teach that.

- The English Armada 1741:

Admiral sir Edward Vernon sent the 2nd largest fleet in history (the largest one was the one of D-Day in Normandy) with 180 ships, 27.400 men to Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

England were so sure of their victory that coins and medals had already been made to celebrate the victory.

The spanish victory with 4.000 men against the 27.400 british was so humiliating that all the medals were destroyed and no one ever talked about it again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cartagena_d...

- The Battle of Cornwall 1595

Minor battle in which 400 spaniards too control over Cornwall to force England to accept the new french king, catholic, instead of their protestant candidate

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalla_de_Cornualles

- The battle of Cartagena was the most important one, but England tried several times to conquer land in the Spanish Caribbean, always with Spain winning

- Action of 19 January 1799

Minor battle like the hundreds of them that happened in the ocean

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_19_January_...

- During the American independence war, Spain supported in several battles in favor of the colonies, and participated in some of the victories

etc, etc, etc

Bertuccio gave you some of the best examples.

In 1752 50 Spaniards defeated 200 Britons attempting a land in Puerto Rico.

The very best one would happen in 1589 when Brittania sent its Contra Armada to attack Spain by first taking Lisboa, then the Azores and finally the trans atlantic route to the West Indies. The Brtitsh failed miserably. Out of the 150 ships and 23000 men. The men were led by Francis Drake and General John Norris (possibly the best land general of the time). They were coming to finish off the Spanish Armada which was still recovering from the events of 1588. The result was the British lost 20,000men and signed the treaty of London of 1604 in which the Brits could only colonize in those North American territories of minimal to no interest to Spain, no more attacks on the commercial routes between europe and the American Hemisphere. The British Navy would not re-emerge as a naval threat until the war of spanish Throne Succesion in 1700-15

Well... There are not many if any. Britain was the power of the seas for a long time and when they did fight land battle on the continent they were usually allied with Spain. You best bet would be to search Wikipedia or similar source since any Spanish victories are likely to be incredibly minor.

Britain was an outlaw country throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. Spain and France ruled the world. The English rose to prominence due to the implosion of the rest of the European powers following the Napoleonic wars in the 19th century, Before that time, the Spanish ruled a vast American empire that the British could never take. In fact in 1779, the Brits while embroiled in a war with the US colonies lost a whole fleet to the Spanish. This is not written widely in English language history text books but its all historical fact.