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The expedition was led by her former suitor, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
Elizabeth from the start did not really back this course of action.
Her strategy, to support the Dutch on the surface with an English army, while beginning secret peace talks with Spain within days of Leicester's arrival in Holland, had necessarily to be at odds with Leicester's, who wanted and was expected by the Dutch to fight an active campaign.
Elizabeth on the other hand, wanted him " to avoid at all costs any decisive action with the enemy ".
He enraged Elizabeth by accepting the post of Governor-General from the Dutch States-General.
Elizabeth saw this as a Dutch ploy to force her to accept sovereignty over the Netherlands, which so far she had always declined.
She wrote to Leicester:

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