- By Sarah Martin
- Published Yesterday
- Education
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Rating:
Unrated

On only one occasion did the English attempt to emulate the successes of the Elizabethan sea-dogs, and that proved disastrous In 1625, infuriated by the Catholic court's rejection of his suit for the hand of the Infanta of Spain, Charles I sent Sir Edward Cecil (later ennobled as Baron Cecil of Putney and Viscount Wimbledon) with ninety ships and ten thousand men, on an expedition against Spain