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The Elizabethan Sea Dog is a unit in Age of Discovery, a scenario in Civilization III: Conquests.
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During her reign, Queen Elizabeth gave English privateers permission to fly the English flag and raid Spanish shipping. The most notable Sea Dog of the period was Sir Francis Drake, who was responsible for over 150 attacks on Spanish treasure ships (and still found time to circumnavigate the globe). Sir Walter Raleigh and John Hawkins also contributed to this effort, seeing that vast quantities of Spanish gold and silver from the New World actually arrived in Europe on an English ship. Although numerous other pirates sailed the seas at the time, none surpassed the efficiency and impact of the English Sea Dogs.