Short Essay On Sea Dogs 1500 And 1600

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Sea Dogs Sea dogs of the 1500 and 1600"s worked for queen Elizabeth, robbing and invade the Spaniards. Over this period of 200 years many shipments of gold and treasure were stolen from Spanish ships while they were sailing from port to port on the Spanish main. In one attack the infamous Francis Drake, "...surprised and attacked a heavily laden string of 200 mules. The booty that Drake captured in this attack included 30 tons of heavy silver blocks (Cochran 28). There were many different and hidden armed English ships that were illegally against the Spanish, but only three of them live on now through their fearless tales. The three most well known sea dogs include John Hawkins, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir Francis Drake.…show more content…
Hawkins and Raleigh also accomplished many great achievements. Raleigh was knighted as well, but even this and many other great feats, are still over shadowed by Drake"s clever and bold pirating. But, if you look at the big picture, these sea dogs were just puppets in a political war between England and Spain. Elizabeth"s reasoning behind having the sea dogs do her dirty work was quite simple: the sea dogs were the best, most successful, and most trained group of naval operators in the world (Wood 170). Many times the Queen would consult with Drake, Raleigh, or Hawkins on matters of relations with Spain. She would also ask the sea dogs to take revenge against Spain for any treasure they managed to steal from her (Wood 119). Usually this revenge would be to either rob back from them or shatter one of their ports. But the destruction was not why they enjoyed pirating. Sea dogs enjoyed pirating for one main reason: it was a fruitful opportunity. In this line of business you could make a great deal of money depending on how many ships you were able to hit. And the money that

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