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Period: Jun 19, 1500 to
Price Revolution
Military Cost inflation -
Period: Jun 19, 1536 to
Early Operations
1740s real beginning
17th to early 18th Century British Operations marked by incompetance -
Period: Jun 19, 1543 to
Sir Francis Drake
English Raiding of the Spanish Empire -
Period: Jun 19, 1577 to Jun 19, 1580
Drake Circumnavigate the world
Major strategic objective to raid and plunder west coast of S.America, not protected -
English Intervention Dutch War of Independence
7000 troops to the Naetherlands, added 80 years to the Dutch War of Independence -
Spanish Armada
Raided by drake in 1587, pre emptive and delay a year and destroy supplies -
Norris and Drake
Did their own thing and went rogue -
Earl of Essex
Captured 144 artillery and 2 dozen large ships ransomed= multiples of spanish crown revenue -
Cromwells Western Design
strategically initiate attacks on Spanish Colonies , remove Haiti and Dominica Republic
Ships were the fire support and having issues with command -
Sir Francis Wheeler
Against france 15 ships and West Indies to support an attack , inefficient command arrangement -
Gibraltar 1704
War of Spanish Succession
Successful landings -
Vernon and Wentworth 1740-2
West Indies
Didnt get along and 17th Century raiding made it more difficult with fortificaitons