Drake’s campaign against Spain grew from a deep personal grievance

Evidence

What modest capital he could gather had been invested in the voyage, and all was lost. — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 186

Categorization

• XREF: Chapters earlier on Drake’s 1580s raids; this grounds the private-war motif with its emotional root in financial ruin. — connects to: Drake’s war with Spain began as personal vengeance for San Juan de Ulua — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 186; San Juan d Ulua disaster transformed Drake into an implacable enemy of Spain — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 169
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 186

Library Connections

• San Juan d Ulua disaster transformed Drake into an implacable enemy of Spain #expands (0.95) — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 169
• Drake’s war with Spain began as personal vengeance for San Juan de Ulua #expands (0.95) — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 186