The expulsion was planned with military urgency and royal haste

Evidence

The operation should start in late summer, it was decided, and galleys and contingents of troops (the dreaded tercios among them) should be summoned from their bases in Italy. “Let this be done, and with all possible haste” (con todo el calor posible) was the royal command. Again, those do not sound like the words of the dithering monarch of whom we hear so much elsewhere. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1403

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• XREF: The decisiveness-vs-indecision puzzle echoes themes in The Defeat of the Spanish Armada about how we read monarchs’ characters from selectively preserved records.