Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Challenges at Home and Abroad.
Francis Drake's boastful phrase for his 1587 raid on Cadiz, reflecting a humiliating but non-fatal blow to Philip II.
Singeing the King of Spain's beard appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Early Elizabethan England, especially Challenges at Home and Abroad and War with Spain.
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