Netherlands

• What was the Treaty of Nonsuch (1585)?

  Military alliance between England and the Dutch Protestants.

  • Finance an army of 7500 troops under Earl of Leicester
• Why was the plan unsuccessful?

  • Elizabeth did not want war
  • Leicester accepted title of 'Governor General of Netherlands' which made it seem like Elizabeth was deposing Philip
• Why does Elizabeth ask Drake to attack Spanish Navy?

  She is informed that Philip II is building his Armada so she wants to disrupt his plans
• Singeing of the King's Beard (1587):

  Drake sails into harbour of Cadiz and destroys 10,000 tons of Spanish shipping

  • Delayed Armada by a year