Drake’s voyages ignited English war fever that Elizabeth could no longer control

Evidence

To her cool, sceptical, disenchanted mind the enthusiasms of her own people were becoming almost as unintelligible as the dark passions of Spain. But more and more the thrust of those enthusiasms disturbed the delicate balance of forces which preserved her own freedom of action. Some lust or idealism the Golden Hind had stirred when it floated triumphantly on the Thames sent more and more of her subjects to trail pikes beside the Dutch or wake West Indian echoes with their guns. — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 72

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to Drake’s golden hind circumnavigation and his Caribbean raids from earlier chapters; the narrative payoff of those events. — connects to: Sixtus admired Elizabeth yet worked for her overthrow — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 126; Elizabeth’s bond with the English people was historically unprecedented in duration and intensity — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 47; Drake raids transformed privateering into an existential conflict between nations — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 1
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 72

Library Connections

• Drake raids transformed privateering into an existential conflict between nations #expands (0.85) — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 1