Francis Drake | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-02

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Francis Drake


00:01:16 1 Birth and early years
00:02:53 2 Marriage and family
00:03:29 3 Career at sea
00:08:09 4 Rathlin Island massacre
00:09:05 5 Circumnavigation of the earth (1577–1580)
00:10:54 5.1 Execution of Thomas Doughty
00:12:19 5.2 Entering the Pacific (1578)
00:14:29 5.3 Capture of Spanish treasure ships
00:15:36 5.4 Coast of California: Nova Albion (1579)
00:17:04 5.5 Across the Pacific and around Africa
00:17:54 5.6 Return to Plymouth (1580)
00:19:28 5.7 Award of knighthood
00:20:08 5.8 Award of arms
00:22:01 6 Political career
00:23:29 7 Purchase of Buckland Abbey
00:24:01 8 Great Expedition to America
00:25:17 9 Spanish Armada
00:25:32 9.1 Cádiz raid
00:26:23 9.2 Defeat of the Spanish Armada
00:28:17 9.3 Drake–Norris Expedition
00:28:57 10 Defeats and death
00:30:13 11 Cultural impact
00:32:01 12 See also



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Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer and explorer of the Elizabethan era. Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580, and was the first to complete the voyage as captain while leading the expedition throughout the entire circumnavigation. With his incursion into the Pacific Ocean, he claimed what is now California for the English and inaugurated an era of conflict with the Spanish on the western coast of the Americas, an area that had previously been largely unexplored by western shipping.Elizabeth I awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581 which he received on the Golden Hind in Deptford. As a Vice Admiral, he was second-in-command of the English fleet in the battle against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He died of dysentery in January 1596, after unsuccessfully attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico. Drake's exploits made him a hero to the English, but his privateering led the Spanish to brand him a pirate, known to them as El Draque. King Philip II allegedly offered a reward for his capture or death of 20,000 ducats, about £6 million (US$8 million) in modern currency.