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The Sea Dogs were a group of English privateers and explorers authorised by Queen Elizabeth I to raid England's enemies, whether they were formally at war with them or not. Active from 1560 until Elizabeth's death in 1603, the Sea Dogs primarily attacked Spanish targets both on land and at sea, particularly during the Anglo-Spanish War .
Elizabethan Sea Dog and associate of Sir Frances Drake during the early years of the Anglo-Spanish War. First English privateer to enter the Pacific though Panama. [citation needed] William Parker: d. 1617 1590s–1600s England Elizabethan Sea Dog active in the West Indies. Successfully captured Porto Bello in 1602 without firing a shot ...
He was born near Plymouth and was a member of the lesser gentry but he became one of the owners of the Merchants house [1] & in 1601 became Lord Mayor of Plymouth before becoming a privateer (and so-called Elizabethan sea dogs) in the services of Queen Elizabeth I (the Great) (1533-1603, reigned 1558-1603).
Sir Francis Drake's expedition of 1572–1573 was an uncommissioned privateer profiteering sea voyage by Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540–1596), of the beginnings of the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of England (island of Great Britain), (under its monarch Queen Elizabeth I (the Great) (1533–1603, reigned 1558–1603).
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In the 16th century, Queen Elizabeth I (a.k.a. Elizabeth the Great, 1533-1603, reigned 1558-1603), commissioned several privateers to carry out long-range attacks against the Spanish Empire's global interests, exemplified by the attacks by Sir Francis Drake (c.1540-1596), William Parker, and other Elizabethan sea dogs on Spanish merchant ...
[2] [3] [4] [note 1] French corsairs were (belatedly) followed into the Bay by Elizabethan Sea Dogs three decades later. The earliest of these is thought to have been either Sir Francis Drake in the Minion, or John Oxenham in the Beare, who during 23 February 1573 – 22 March 1573 cruised the Bay and watered at Guanaxa.
In the second half of the 16th century a series of economic, political, and religious circumstances created tensions in the relations between England and Spain. Protestant England came into direct confrontation with Catholic Spain; Elizabeth I of England had been excommunicated by Pope Pius V in 1570, whilst in 1584 Philip II of Spain had signed the Treaty of Joinville with the French Catholic ...