The Armada was defeated. Most of its ships were in sinking. Between 4,000 and 5,000 of its soldiers were dead. Of the English, no more than 100 had fallen.
The papal decree ordering all Christian princes to actively work for the destruction of Protestantism was still acknowledged by the kings of the Catholic world. The plot to overthrow Protestant England now took a new shape in the form of the invincible Armada.