Queen Elizabeth I1
Princess Elizabeth, a slender, athletic, extremely intelligent young woman, recieved an ideal Rennaissance education in Latin, Greek and modern languages, in history and Scripture. As Henry VIII's second eldest child, shunted back to third in line for the throne by the complex politics of the period, she also had a very practical education in political intrigue - and the fine art of political survival. She came in 1558 to the royal throne shaken by a decade of misgovernment, religious fanaticism, and economic problems. She proceeded to give England 45 years of strong government, moderate religious policies, and unexplained prosperity. Elizabeth was a prudent ruler. She avoided costly wars, however, supported the war with Ireland. "The creation of this English colony (Ireland) led to the expansion of markets for English goods and the growth in imports of desirable commodities." Elizabeth sought for religious compromise rather than religious crusades, worked through her appointed ministers, and dealt firmly with an increasingly vocal Parliament. She was well served by
Angered by English raids on his shipping and by the assistance Elizabeth was giving to the rebels in the Netherlands, King Philip II had decided to invade England. England was a nation dazzled by Queen Elizabeth I, her splendid court and costumes and cowed by the stamp of an indignant royal foot. She was less well supported by dashing younger cavaliers such as the Earl of Essex. In 1587, Raleigh sent another group to Roanoke. Only after her death in 1603 did full-scale efforts to found English colonies in America begin, and even then the organizing force came from the merchant capitalists, not from the Crown. One reason for the delay in getting aid to the Roanoke colonists was the attack of the Spanish Armada on England in 1588. When Captain Francis Drake was about to set sail on his famous round-the-world voyage in 1577, she said to him: "Drake! . I would gladly be revenged on the King of Spain for divers injuries that I have recieved. " She supported Martin Frobisher's expeditions. And she has been Good Queen Bess ever since - England's greatest and best-loved ruler . He sailed through the Strait of Magellan and terrorized the west coast of South America, capturing the Spanish treasure ship, Cacafuego, heavily ladden with Peruvian silver. Gilbert's half brother, Sir Walter Raleigh, took up his work.
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