The Tilbury muster was the centrepiece of England land defences against the Armada and the largest military mobilisation in England since the Wars of the Roses. Leicester commanded a substantial field army intended to intercept any Spanish force that broke through the naval defences and landed in the Thames estuary. Elizabeth I speech at Tilbury — I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king — became one of the most celebrated moments in English history and permanently shaped the mythology of the Armada campaign.
None — Armada did not reach the Thames
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