After emerging Coming_to_be from six years of disgrace following the resounding defeat Earnings_and_losses of the English Armada at Lisbon in 1589 , Francis Drake embarked Process_start on a long and disastrous campaign Military_operation against Hispanic America , suffering Bodily_harm several consecutive defeats Earnings_and_losses there .

It was a resounding victory Earnings_and_losses for the Boers and the battle Military_operation is considered to have been one of the most humiliating defeats Earnings_and_losses of British arms in history .