The Netherlands

• What was the Treaty of Nonsuch?

  A treaty that Elizabeth signed that agreed to send 7,400 troops to fight alongside the Dutch rebels
• When was the Treaty of Nonsuch signed?

  10th August 1585
• What did the Dutch rebels communicate to Elizabeth in June 1585?

  That if she overthrew the Spanish, she could be Queen of the Netherlands
• Who placed in charge of the campaign in the Netherlands in 1585?

  Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
• Who did Elizabeth tell Drake to raid in 1585?

  Spain
• What was Dudley offered on Elizabeth's behalf?

  Governor General of the Netherlands
• Why did it annoy Elizabeth that Dudley accepted being Governor General of the Netherlands on her behalf?


  She did not want to annoy Phillip
• How did England lose the town of Deventer in the Netherlands?

  Dudley had trusted Sir William Stanley to govern the town but he defected and gave it to Spain
• How did England lose the town of Zutphen in the Netherlands?

  Dudley trusted Rowland to govern the town but he defected and gave it to Spain
• What did Dudley prevent happening to the deep sea port of Ostend?

  He prevented Parma from capturing it in 1587
• How did Elizabeth stop Dudley's campaign in the Netherlands?

  She reduced the amount of money she was investing and so Dudley had to return to England