Elizabethan maritime ventures failed in exploration and colonization endeavors

Evidence

The age of Drake was one of endeavour rather than success. The Elizabethans failed to find the North-east Passage, or the North-west Passage; they failed to colonize America; they did not establish a sustainable trade with the Americas, and it was not until the seventeenth century that they finally opened a firm trade with the East. — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 1331

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 1331
• XREF: connects to: Elizabethan naval operations often failed their goals and remained immature — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 1329; Elizabethan naval forces suffered severe limitations from disease and battle inexperience — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 1329; Elizabethan England never conceived colonizing the Ottomans or Moors — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 113