Sir Francis Drake
English explorer and privateer who led the second circumnavigation of the globe.
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To the Spanish, Francis Drake was known as El Draque, a pirate, while in his homeland he was celebrated as a hero.[1] After an unsuccessful military operation in Panama, Drake succumbed to dysentery in January 1596.[1]
Life and work
Francis Drake was born at Crowndale Farm in Tavistock, Devon, England, though his exact birth date is not formally recorded.[2] Drake began his seagoing training as an apprentice in the household of sea-captain William Hawkins of Plymouth.[3] Edmund Drake, a Protestant farmer, and Mary Mylwaye had twelve sons, of whom Francis was the firstborn.[4] Drake's final participation in the slave trade occurred during the 1567–1569 voyage he undertook with John Hawkins.[5]
Drake took part in the 1575 Rathlin Island massacre in Ireland, where his role was to block any reinforcements from reaching the island.[6] On that same voyage, he proclaimed the region of present-day Northern California as Nova Albion for Queen Elizabeth I.[7]
References
- Wikipedia, "Francis Drake" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Edmundson, "A History of the British Presence in Chile: From Bloody Mary to Charles Darwin and the Decline of British Influence", Springer, 2009, p. 9 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Francis Drake" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Kelsey 2000, p. 3; Benson, "Sir Francis Drake", Harper & Brothers, 1927, p. 6; Corbett 1898, p. 393; Campbell, "Lives of the British Admirals and Naval History of Great Britain from the Time of Caesar to the Chinese War of 1841 Chiefly Abridged from the work of Dr. John Campbell", Richard Griffin & Co, 1841, p. 104 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Francis Drake" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Loades 2007; Kelsey 2000, p. 3 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Francis Drake" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Thomson, George Malcolm (1972), 'Sir Francis Drake', William Morrow & Company Inc. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Francis Drake" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Morgan, "Hawkins, Sir John (1532–1595), merchant and naval commander", 4 October 2007; "John Hawkins Admiral, Privateer, Slave Trader", www.rmg.co.uk; Sugden 2006 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Francis Drake" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Sugden 2006 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Francis Drake" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Gough, "Distant Dominion : Britain and the Northwest Coast of North America, 1579–1809", Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1980, p. 15; Morison, "The Great Explorers: The European Discovery of America", Oxford University Press, 1986, p. 700; Cassels, "Where Did Drake Careen The Golden Hind in June/July 1579? A Mariner's Assessment", The Mariner's Mirror, January 2003, p. 263; Cassels, "Where Did Drake Careen the Golden Hind in June/July 1579? A Mariner's Assessment", The Mariner's Mirror, 1 January 2003, p. 260–271; Gough, en.wikipedia.org
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