Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and the English General, reached in December 1585 at Flushing between large samples of happiness, but soon began acting like a dictator, so he began to clash with the flamingos, which are characterized by their desire for freedom, for if they had rebelled against English rule would not accept English. Leicester , upset by the growing opposition that was in Flanders in November 1586, he returned to England to present to the queen Isabel problems. Left as an authority in his absence the Council of State, in which two ministers were present English. In addition, during these weeks English troops had taken Farnese adjoining squares Zutphen, championed by governors Irish Catholic, Colonel William Stanley and Captain Richard Cork, who handed them over to the English .
This led to improvements in the bad opinion of the Dutch to their new allies to change the first surrendered their seats. To make matters worse, then, both captains along with his men, who were Catholics Irish ENGLOS became the ranks of the English Royal Army .
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- " generals Flanders. Alessandro Farnese and Ambrosio de Spinola, two soldiers in the service of the English Empire," Juan Carlos Losada .
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