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Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580. This was the first English circumnavigation, and second circumnavigation overall.
Francis Drake's circumnavigation, also known as Drake's Raiding Expedition, was an important historical maritime event that took place between 15 December 1577 and 26 September 1580. The expedition was authorised by Queen Elizabeth I and consisted of five ships led by Francis Drake .
Golden Hind was a galleon captained by Francis Drake in his circumnavigation of the world between 1577 and 1580. She was originally known as Pelican, but Drake renamed her mid-voyage in 1578, in honour of his patron, Sir Christopher Hatton, whose crest was a golden hind (a female red deer). Hatton was one of the principal sponsors of Drake's ...
Captain / Sir Francis Drake (or his crew member Oxenham) is further reputed as the first Englishman / men to have sighted both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans together (simultaneously) at the same time from Pedro Mandingo's mountain-top vista lookout point, (as did famous explorer Vasco Nuñez de Balboa (c.1475–1519), had done for the first ...
Drake's successful circumnavigation led to him being held with high regard as a sailor and explorer by his contemporaries and he became famous throughout Europe. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The value of the treasure deposited in the Tower of London , £264,000, eclipsed the revenue collected by the English Parliament each year. [ 15 ]
Over the years, St. Augustine faced numerous attacks, including those by English privateer Sir Francis Drake in 1586 and later by English forces led by Governor James Moore of Carolina in 1702.
Drake found the bay unexpectedly, as by godsend and "fell with" a harbor within the bay. 9. The bay faces south, with depths from six to eight fathoms within a prominent point, diminishing gradually to three fathoms on a course leading northeasterly into the bay toward an anchorage off a river or estuary in the north end.
The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake is the earliest detailed account of Francis Drake's circumnavigation. [1] It was compiled by Drake's nephew, also named Francis Drake, based on his uncle's journal, the notes of Francis Fletcher, and other sources. [2] It was first published in London in 1628 by Nicholas Bourne. [3]