Cromwell's Foreign Policy
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- Created on: 03-06-15 10:09
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- Cromwell's Foreign Policy
- Anglo-Dutch Relations
- In 1654 he secured the Treaty of Westminster which made peace with the Dutch, therefore not only securing a Protestant ally but a important trading partner
- Baltic policy
- Secured peace with Sweden (through Commercial Treaty) and Denmark (Treat of Roskilde) also securing trade routes
- Much more successful in this than Rump
- Secured peace with Sweden (through Commercial Treaty) and Denmark (Treat of Roskilde) also securing trade routes
- Harris; Charles' foreign policy was 'inglorious' compared to Cromwell's
- Spain
- Western Design though to be 'God's plan' against Catholicism
- Widely seen as a failure amidst Spanish forces- yet relative successes in capture of Jamaica (not San Domingo) and lenient settlement with included trade
- Western Design though to be 'God's plan' against Catholicism
- France
- Lenient settlement with Spain to turn France into enemy- yet still made ally later on
- Important event was intervention on Vaudious Massacre by Duke of Savoy
- Continuation of 'activist' foreign policy by protecting Protestant (Hugenot) interests
- Clarendon; 'his glory at home nothing compared to his glory abroad'
- Capp; navy established under Rump expanded upon
- Farr; 'continuation' and 'development' of trade
- Anglo-Dutch Relations
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