Real danger braced rather than unnerved Elizabeth

Evidence

Elizabeth was easy to upset but hard to frighten. She might chop and change and draw back a dozen times before an unwelcome step. She might ignore an ugly fact until she drove her ministers nearly mad. But the pressure of real danger braced her. — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 777

Categorization

• XREF: This character sketch of Elizabeth under pressure parallels how Drake operated under crisis in battles like Cadiz and the fireship raid. — connects to: Queen Elizabeth personally inspected her army at Tilbury — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 770
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 777

Library Connections

• Queen Elizabeth personally inspected her army at Tilbury #exemplifies (0.85) — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 770