Queen Elizabeth knighted Drake using the French ambassador to defy Spain.

Evidence

Instead, she handed it to Marchaumont and bade him perform the ceremony of knighthood, cunningly involving France in a brazen act of defiance of Spain. — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 631

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 631
• XREF: connects to: Anti-Spanish sentiment generated popular support for Drake’s pirate raids. — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 200; Drake seized a twentieth of Spain’s annual transatlantic trade value — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 336; Drake’s raid galvanized Philip II to launch the Great Armada against England — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 829

Broader Connections

• Drake’s raid galvanized Philip II to launch the Great Armada against England #expands (0.75) — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 829