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Elizabeth I expanded the exploration in her reign through privateers such as John Hawkins and Francis Drake. This started the unhappy trade of slaves for England in the West Indies and frequent battles with Spanish ships in the Caribbean like the Battle of San Juan de Ulùa. Trade was also expanded abroad in a number of foreign countries, through trading companies such as the Muscovy Company, the Eastland Company, the Levant Company and the East India Company. Colonisation was less of a success because a Walter Raleigh attempt to colonise Roanoke Island was a dismal failure.
Elizabeth I expanded the exploration in her reign through privateers such as John Hawkins and Francis Drake. This started the unhappy trade of slaves for England in the West Indies and frequent battles with Spanish ships in the Caribbean like the Battle of San Juan de Ulùa. Trade was also expanded abroad in a number of foreign countries, through trading companies such as the Muscovy Company, the Eastland Company, the Levant Company and the East India Company. Colonisation was less of a success because a Walter Raleigh attempt to colonise Roanoke Island was a dismal failure.
