@Romeo Fabulini,
True enough, but when I was in elementary and high school, in our studies of History we rooted for the Armada. ( Guy Fawkes too.) We were all saddened to find that the Duke of Alva met a stormy day in the Channel. The Nuns also pointed out that, despite the depredations of the Conquistadors, the native populations in America fared much better under Spanish rule than did the unfortunates under the rule of the Pilgrim fathers who came over a century later.
The Mission you referred too still stands in San Francisco - as do a chain of others extending from San Diego thru Carmel and on to Sonoma north of San Francisco. I would estimate that about half of the city is bi-lingual. Though my accent is bad, I can carry on a conversation in Spanish.
We were, however, very fortunate to have inherited the British tradition of common law, and a very strong preference for local, as opposed to central, government. Sadly the latter appears to be disappearing under our current crop of idiots.
