EI’s Foreign Policy
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- Created on: 20-04-22 10:05
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- EI’s Spanish Foreign Policy
- Success
- War with Netherlands
- Spanish Expulsion from the Netherlands 1594
- EI’s aim of autonomy in the Netherlands was achieved to ensure PII would not limit trade.
- 1588 -British military commander Francis Vere established positive relationship with the Dutch leader Maurice of Nassau - not achieved by Leicester
- able to recapture Zutphen and Deventer
- Spanish Expulsion from the Netherlands 1594
- EI’s aim of autonomy in the Netherlands was achieved to ensure PII would not limit trade.
- Spanish Expulsion from the Netherlands 1594
- able to recapture Zutphen and Deventer
- Spanish Expulsion from the Netherlands 1594
- War with Spain
- 1588 Defeat of Spanish Armada
- EI appointed effective military
- 7th of August, - sent fire ships into Spanish vessels anchored in Calais
- undermined Spanish strategy as driven from Armada’s main anchorage and Spanish lost vital anchors and cables.
- 8th August - captured Medina Sidonia and several of his ships, causing 3 two sink
- 7th of August, - sent fire ships into Spanish vessels anchored in Calais
- EI appointed effective military
- MQS executed in 1587 and Babington executed in 1586 - shows EI’s control
- EI removed Don John from his position as ambassador at court after the Pacification of Ghent in 1576
- Alleviates dynastic threat as John had links to MQS
- 1588 Defeat of Spanish Armada
- Trade
- 1594 Capture of Madre Dois
- privateers made £140,000 in profit, presenting EI with a substantial sum
- 1596 - Capture of Cadiz
- assisted PII’s bankruptcy
- but conflict of interest between Ei’s aim and privateers
- Cadiz simply looted for money rather than use it to invade Lisbon
- 1594 Capture of Madre Dois
- War with Netherlands
- Failures
- Disputes over Trade
- 1589 - Drake’s expedition to Portugal
- Drake’s aim to secure Azores contradictory to EI
- no desire to bring about destruction of Spanish Empire
- Antagonised PII - believed if EI had control of the Azores they could destroy the whole basis of Spanish trade with the Americas
- Drake’s aim to secure Azores contradictory to EI
- 1593 -Frobisher and Hawkins made no profit
- 1589 - Drake’s expedition to Portugal
- War with Netherlands
- Failed Interventions
- Leicester’s expedition
- Stanley and Yorke joined Parma
- presented Parma with strategically significant Zutphen and Deventer
- Dutch believed that EI had intended to take over the united provinces.
- led to coup d'etat
- Stanley and Yorke joined Parma
- 1582 - Anjou’s Dutch Campaign
- failures led to Parma gaining huge momentum, only Zeeland + Holland in rebel hands
- led to HIII’s rejection of an anti-Spanish alliance with EI in 1582
- EI needed HIII backing as member of the Catholic Guise family
- able to aid MQS
- EI needed HIII backing as member of the Catholic Guise family
- led to HIII’s rejection of an anti-Spanish alliance with EI in 1582
- failures led to Parma gaining huge momentum, only Zeeland + Holland in rebel hands
- Leicester’s expedition
- 1580 - Netherlands divided into Union of Utrecht and Arras
- rebels became religiously divided with Arras Catholic, controlled by Spain and Utrecht Protestant
- Failed Interventions
- Disputes over Trade
- Success
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