Spain conscripted every third man for the Armada campaign

Evidence

When they went for England, the King took the fifth man of his country, and now the third man. — Richard Bruce Wernham, The Expedition of Sir John Norris and…, 928

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Richard Bruce Wernham, The Expedition of Sir John Norris and…, 928
• XREF: connects to: The 1588 Armada war was an ideological total war across all Christendom. — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 22