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listening. When Francis Drake returned from his circumnavigation of the

globe to England, he found that the situation in Europe was dire.

Both the voyages of John Hawkins and Drake's War were really English campaigns in the American Theater of War of what was really an international

European war.

The war was largely undeclared.

It took place mostly in smaller conflicts in battles rather than outright warfare, but in two fronts it was something that could truly be called a war.

In France, the Huguenot forces were entrenched against the forces of the king, and they had been really in a decades-long civil war.

But in the low countries, where much of our story today takes place, things were moving from the realm of diplomacy and conflict to outright warfare.

Now the armies of both the Huguenot forces of the French and the Dutch armies,

they were well trained, but they were really no match for the French and Spanish armies that they faced.

These were two of the greatest armies of the world, backed not only by their respective kings

but by the full force of the Catholic Church.

So the Protestant forces of the Huguenots and the Dutch and the English

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