FRANCIS DRAKE

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• Sir Francis Drake, vice admiral was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580.

PARENTS

• Mary Mylwaye Drake (mother)
• Edmund Drake (father)
• Both were English :3

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• Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588.

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• He died of dysentery in January 1596 after unsuccessfully attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico

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• His exploits were legendary, making him a hero to the English but a pirate to the Spaniards to whom he was known as El Draque.

QUOTE

• "THERE IS PLENTY OF TIME TO FINISH THIS GAME, AND TO THRASH THE SPANIARDS TOO."
• (Francis Drake)

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