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Armada is the Spanish and Portuguese for naval fleet, or an adjective meaning 'armed'; Armáda is the Czech and Slovak for army. It may refer to:

Military

Military campaigns

  • Spanish Armada or Great Armada, an unsuccessful attempted invasion of England by Spain in 1588
  • English Armada or Counter Armada, an unsuccessful English naval campaign in 1589 aimed at capturing Lisbon and other coastal towns from Spain
  • Armada of 1779 or Other Armada, an unsuccessful attempted invasion of England by France and Spain in 1779

Ships

  • USS Armada, World War II minesweeper of the US Navy

Armed forces

Products

  • The Armada (book) (1959), a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Spanish Armada by Garrett Mattingly

Computing

  • Compaq Armada, a model of laptop computer

Business


  • Armada (comics), a division of Acclaim Comics Inc., which published licensed own properties

Music

Other uses

  • Armada (Bas-Lag), the name of a fictional floating city in China Miéville's novel The Scar


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