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The Sea Dogs were a group of English privateers and explorers authorised by Queen Elizabeth I to raid England's enemies, whether they were formally at war with them or not. Active from 1560 until Elizabeth's death in 1603, the Sea Dogs primarily attacked Spanish targets both on land and at sea, particularly during the Anglo-Spanish War .
Elizabethan Sea Dogs, English adventurers of the Elizabethan era; Sea Dog, a pseudonym used at one point in Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. 471 (1963) Places
He was born near Plymouth and was a member of the lesser gentry but he became one of the owners of the Merchants house [1] & in 1601 became Lord Mayor of Plymouth before becoming a privateer (and so-called Elizabethan sea dogs) in the services of Queen Elizabeth I (the Great) (1533-1603, reigned 1558-1603).
It is the sequel to Sea Dogs (2000), Pirates of the Caribbean (2003), and Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales (2006). Like Caribbean Tales, it does not boast either of the two former games' names, for legal reasons. It was later followed by Sea Dogs: To Each His Own in 2012.
Due to legal issues, it does not bear the name of the developers' previous pirate games Sea Dogs or Pirates of the Caribbean. Unlike Pirates of the Caribbean, Age Of Pirates was developed with the intent of serving as a true sequel to Sea Dogs despite the name change, and chronicles the story of the children of the main character from the original.
In the second half of the 16th century a series of economic, political, and religious circumstances created tensions in the relations between England and Spain. Protestant England came into direct confrontation with Catholic Spain; Elizabeth I of England had been excommunicated by Pope Pius V in 1570, whilst in 1584 Philip II of Spain had signed the Treaty of Joinville with the French Catholic ...
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However, in 1572, Queen Elizabeth I of England abruptly refused to admit the Sea beggars to her harbours. No longer having refuge, the sea beggars, under the command of De la Marck, Willem Bloys van Treslong and Lenaert Jansz de Graeff , made a desperate attack upon Brielle , [ 5 ] [ 6 ] which they seized by surprise in the absence of the ...