Henry struggled in early years due to fathers old ministers, Archbishop Warham and Bishop Fox, who stressed the advantage of avoiding war to preserve English security.
In 1511, England became part of the Holy League along with Spain, Venice and the HRE in order to weaken France's influence on northern Italy, which the Pope felt threatened by.
In order to impress, Henry protrayed the war to be in the defence of the Church, with parliament granting the necessary money to wage war 1512 and dispatching expeditionary force of 12,000 troops under the control of the Marquis of Dorset to Bayonne.
The plan being that England would gain control of Aquitainein southwest france with the help of Spanish troops
Henry was let down, in that Spain had used it as a diversion to capture Navarre. Whilist waiting for Spanish troops, the became full of illness and Dorset's troops had to withdrawn.
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