Age of Absolutism 2: Tudor England, 1485-1603
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Elizabeth encouraged privateers, people like francis drake and walter raleigh, to wage a kind of seaborn guerilla campaign against spain. O going and raiding spanish harbors and shipyards, at one point, even managing to attack the harbor of cadiz. They said that they managed to singe the king of spain's beard when they attacked cadiz. And aso sending out sort of opportunistically attack spSpanish ships, particularly the treasure laden ships that brought the gold and silver from the massive american empire back to spain. So this was again, a live threat during, almost during most of elizabeth's reign. This was a
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