Relations with Spain
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- Created on: 02-04-18 17:34
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- Relations with Spain
- Spain: commercial rivalry
- competed for market & resources in New World
- Spain conquered Mexico & Peru
- provided government with gold & silver
- control over sugar cane & tobacco
- Spanish control of Netherlands= closed trade routes
- reduced income & profits
- England commercial rival to Spain
- Francis Drake travelled distances to trade
- Spanish control of New World= no English trade
- efforts to make money= conflict
- merchants (funded financially) raided Spanish colonies
- Dutch rebels encouraged to attack Spanish ships
- loss of silver= bankruptcy & no soldiers
- Drake was knighted
- Elizabeth's defiance towards Spanish commercial interests
- war was only way to keep Spanish commercial interests
- Spain: political and religious rivalry
- Phillip was backed by pope
- Spain & Catholicism= threat
- Phillip involved in plots
- Dutch= protestant
- Spanish campaign changed that
- angered English government
- Spanish campaign changed that
- Elizabeth helped the Dutch protestants
- allowed rebel ships passage
- provided financial support
- encouraged attack on spanish shipping & colonies
- Spanish Fury= where troops looted Antwerp
- troops unpaid (no fund)
- Pacification of Ghent= document for troops to leave Netherlands
- Late 1584
- control over Netherlands restored (under Duke of Alba)
- English allies (Duke of Alencon & William of Orange) dead
- Treaty of Joinville united France & Spain against England & Netherlands
- Dutch Catholics ready to make peace (strengthen Phillip)
- England close to war with Spain
- Phillip blamed England for making Dutch situation worse
- Elizabeth's government blame Spain for plots against her
- Phillip blamed England for attack on Spanish ships
- Spain: commercial rivalry
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