2.2 What Caused The Spanish Armada(relations With Spain) Flashcards
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What was a key part of Elizabeth’s foreign policy?
Improve trade to benefit the economy
How did Elizabeth’s Foreign policy of improve trade to benefit the economy cause problems?
English Merchants trading in the New world needed licences from Spain(hard to get)
The merchants resulted in trading illegally and attacked Spanish ports and ships. This angered Philip II of Spain
How did Drake make a name for himself?
Made fortunes from trading in the new world. He captured numerous Spanish ships ans seized their cargos
This caused Elizabeth to hire Drake as a privateer in 1572
When does Elizabeth hire Drake as a privateer?
1572
What does Drake do after being made a privateer by Elizabeth?
Captures £40,000 of Spanish silver in Parma, this angers Philip
When does Elizabeth send Drake of to the new world and what were her two plans?
November 1577
- offical plan:bring back gold and silver to England
- secret plan: attack Spanish colonies in the New world
By what year were anglo-spanish relations very bad
1577
When drake Circumnavigates the globe(1577-1580) what three things does he do that angers Philip?
- plundered Spanish ports on the coastline
- set up a region in North California in Elizabeth’s name- New Ablion
-brought £400,000 worth of treasure back to England
When Drake returns from circumnavigating the globe, what does Elizabeth do that angers Philip?
She publically knights Drake on the decks of the golden hind-this made Philip angry because he saw Drake as a pirate stealing what was his
From what year were Spanish troops and ships sailing to the Netherlands with troops and ships?
1567
What did Elizabeth decide to do in the Netherlands
and what three things does she do to act on this
She decides put pressure on the Spanish to return the Netherlands to its goverment system of 1548 which involved Dutch autonomy)
She did this by!
- helping the Dutch Protestants resist the Spanish
- Allow English privateers to attack Spanish ships and colonies
- promises a marriage alliance to the heir of France: the duke of Alençon and persuades him to fight Spain in the netherlands
When was the Spanish fury and what occured?
1576
-unpaid Spanish forces rampage through Dutch provinces and sack Antwerp
What to the Dutch to in response to the Spanish fury?
All Dutch provinces join up and create the Pacification of Ghent
What three things are in the pacification of Ghent?
- Spanish troops expelled from the Netherlands
- end of religious persecution
- restore autonomy
What does Elizabeth to in response to the pacification of Ghent?
Gives the Dutch £100,000 loan+ treaty of Nonsuch
After Don Juan accepted the pacification of Ghent in 1577, Spain invaded 6 months later with the Duke of Alba incharge. What did Elizabeth do in reponse to this?
She hires a mercenary John Casmir and gives him an army of 6,000 volenteers to help the Dutch(not in her name so not offically at war with Spain)
What happened withe the Duke of Alençon in the Netherlands?
He comes to England and gets £70,000 from Elizabeth in 1581. He goes to the Netherlands in 1582 but fails and returns to France in 1583
Which two people die in 1584?
- Duke of Alençon
- William of Orange(leader of the Dutch rebels)
What happens at the end of 1584?
France Catholic league sign the treatynof Joinville to get Philip’s help against French Catholics
In 1585 the French king signs up to Catholic league’s aim of ridding France of Heresy
When does Philip tell the Pope he intends to invade England?
Enf of 1585
When does Elizabeth order Drake to attack Spain’s navy!
March 1587
In Cadiz harbour, how much damage did drake do?
- destroyed 30 ships and the fleet’s provisions
- the Armada had to be delayed by a year to protect Spain from Drake as he started attacking ships coming back with treasure from the New world
When does Elizabeth sign the treaty of Nonsuch ?
1585
What does the treaty of Nonsuch say and cause?
Elangland would finance an army of 7400 troops under the Earl of Leicester
Put England at war with Spain
