8 - charles and foreign policy

Question 1

Charles’ options

Answer 1

1. Send an army to wipe the Catholics out of the Palatinate
2. Try to persuade Spain to use it’s influence with the Emperor to return the Palatinate to Freddie
3. Declare war on Spain. Which would force the Spanish to evacuate the Palatinate and persuade the Emperor to do the same
4. Try and persuade France to declare war on Spain and invade the Palatinate
5. Accept the loss of the Palatinate. Cut your losses and move on.

Question 2

Option 1 - send an army to destoy the catholics
Advantage and disadvantage

Answer 2

Advantage - gets to the heart of the issue
Disadvanatge - England would have to hire an army, costly.

Question 3

Option 2 -
* Try to persuade Spain to use it’s influence with the Emperor to return the Palatinate to Freddie
Advantages and disadvanatges

Answer 3

Advantages:
* Avoids war
* Cheap
Disadvantages:
* It could take a long time
* What could England offer Spain in return

Question 4

option 3 * Declare war on Spain. Which would force the Spanish to evacuate the Palatinate and persuade the Emperor to do the same

Answer 4

Advantages:
* Popular with the English Protestants
Disadvantages:
* England hasn’t got an army and the navy is in a poor condition
* How would attacking Spain help?

Question 5

Option 4 –
* Try and persuade France to declare war on Spain and invade the Palatinate

Answer 5

Advantages:
* Gets a major European power on your side
Disadvantages:
* You may be sacrificing the French protestants

Question 6

Option 5 –
* Accept the loss of the Palatinate. Cut your losses and move on.

Answer 6

Advantages:
* Allows England to reconsider it’s foreign policy
* Cheap
* The King will have less need of Parliament
Disadvantages:
* Loss of honour
* Unpopular with some Protestants

Question 7

Disputes with parliament over foreign policy

Answer 7

Commons wondered who exactly the enemy was.
They doubted the king’s commitment to the Protestant cause and they wanted firm guarantees about how any war would be conducted.

Question 8

Issues with the fleet before setting sale for cadiz

Answer 8

short of many essentias, depsite £120,000 queens dowry

Question 9

Expedition to Cadiz

Answer 9

set said in october 1625.
soldiers got drunk and they ran out of water.
buckingham blamed for the humiliation

Question 10

2nd expedition to Cadiz

Answer 10

Set sail a year later in 1626
didnt even make it to land due to a storm

Question 11

Reasons for the anglo - french war 1626

Answer 11

Buckingham outmanouvered by Richelieu - the chief minister of france
* he had used english ships to fight a war against french protestants
* had settled seperate peace with spain

Question 12

Anglo-french war1626

Answer 12

buckingham arranged a three pronged attack with dukes of lorraine and savoy who also wanted the removal of the cardinal
the plan was to occupy the rochelle (a french protestant holiding) and then attack

Question 13

expedition to the rhe 1627

Answer 13

the aim was to secure the rhe, which guarded the approach to le rochelle

Question 14

Failure of the expedition to the rhe

Answer 14

Inadequate supplies, such as short ladders and inadequate reinforcements

Question 15

The effects of foriegn polciy on relations with parliament

Answer 15

parliament unwilling to grant subsidies to see them wasted
this meant that defeat was likely,without the required funding

Question 16

Englad, france and spain, and the 30 years war

Answer 16

France and spain declared war on england which came to nothing.
protestatnts were loosing the battle, with the danish being forced to retreat back into denamrk

Question 17

Expedition to la rochelle in 1628

Answer 17

to relive the first one
defend the protestants there under siege from the french forces
failed miserably

Question 18

Buckinghams asasination in 1628

Answer 18

stabbed by a former officer of teh cadiz expedition, john felton, baming him for the nations ills

Question 19

Effect on charles, of bucks death

Answer 19

he was hurt by pubic celebratiomn of bucks death
blamed parliament
continued bucks last attempt at securing la rochelle, but it failed again

Question 20

Reasons for peace

Answer 20

Charles saw little point in pursuing a war after his last failure in rochelle.

Question 21

Peace with france

Answer 21

Treaty of souza
april 1629

Question 22

Peace with spain

Answer 22

Treaty of madrid 1630