HST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Armada Portrait, Frances Drake, Gilgit-Baltistan
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The pope authorized all catholics to rise up and kill elizabeth i of england. Deliberately infiltrate protestant nations to take them down internally. In midst of counter-reformation he expanded on his catholic beliefs and grew more extreme. More willing to use force to spread catholicism. Remember, at this time the pope had excommunicated elizabeth i of. Spanish netherlands would come back after he crushed england. Under elizabeth (although they denied it) helped other protestants by sending troops, money and arms. Queen elizabeth funded english pirates like sir walter raleigh and sir. Frances drake to intersect or capture spanish treasure fleets returning from the new world. English were heavily outgunned and disorganized: had bad intelligence as to where the spanish were. When the spanish went through the english channel they experienced terrible weather and relentless annoyance from english ships throughout the night. As they went north the weather increasingly got worse and they could not dock.
