Elizabeth I and Foreign Powers

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  • Created by: wanjikar
  • Created on: 07-03-22 11:16

Aims

  • Prevent any threat to national security
  • An autonomous Netherlands
  • Protect trade with the Netherlands
  • Reduce the threat of a Catholic France 
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War at Sea

  • Privateering- taking advantage of prized possessions of the Spanish empire
  • Joint Stock Venture Warfare- Liz invested in Drake's expeditions and made a huge profit out of them 3,000%
  • Panama 1595- Francis and Drake attack and capture Panama as Philip relies on the canal for delivery of silver- Francis and Drake die there 
  • Cadiz 1596- Earl of Essex captures Cadiz 
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Netherlands

  • 1590 onwards- Dutch are led by Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange
  • Orange is a military genius 
  • Sir Francis Vere had a good relationship with Orange- uses English troops to try force an independent North 
  • War in Netherlands 1585- 1598 cost 2 mil
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France

  • Henry III is assassinated and the Huguenot Henry of Navarre succeeds the throne becomes Henry IV of France 
  • Philip of Spain tries to force the Guise family into ascendancy 
  • Liz gives 20K and 4,000 men to the Huguenots 
  • Henry IV converts to Catholicism and makes peace with Philip by 1598
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