![]() ![]() “Fraught With Hazard describes one of history’s most dramatic and least-known tales-the fate of Spanish Armada survivors in Ireland after the English navy and stormy weather caused many of their warships to wreck on the treacherous Irish coast. This true saga of survival against all odds, based upon Cuellar’s manuscript which lay hidden for 300 years, is vividly described in remarkable detail by historical novelists Paul Altrocchi and Julia Cooley Altrocchi, placing Captain Cuellar among the great heroes and legendary wanderers of history alongside Jason, seeker of the Golden Fleece Sigurd, ancient Norse hero and Homer’s Odysseus. ![]() The story of those few who didn’t die was told only once, by Captain Francisco de Cuellar. Those who fled across Ireland to reach Scotland faced daily peril for months. Thousands of sailors and soldiers drowned hundreds of unarmed Spaniards were slaughtered on the beaches. The worst storms in fifty years, however, drove 24 Spanish ships relentlessly onto the rocky Irish coast, tearing them apart. Description: Riddled with cannonball holes from their stunning defeat by the English Navy after trying to invade Queen Elizabeth’s Protestant realm in 1588 to restore Catholicism, the Spanish Armada sailed north around the Orkneys and Hebrides in their attempt to return home. ![]()
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