Elizabeth's Foreign Policy aims
- Avoid costly and risky war
- Avoid helping rebels (this caused conflict with ministers who wished her to champion the protestant cause abroad)
- To assert English independence from France and Spain
- To secure England's northern border
- To limit the power of France
- To protect English trade with Burgundy (the Netherlands): wool and textile made up 90% of English exports
- To make sure the likely invasion point of the Channel coastline was not under the control of any one power.
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