Sir Francis Drake 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 third circumnavigation overall. Wikipedia
Died: January 28, 1596, Portobelo, Panama
Spouse: Elizabeth Sydenham (m. 1585–1596) and Mary Newman (m. 1569–1581)
Parents: Edmund Drake and Mary Mylwaye Drake
Nationality: English
Awards: Knight Bachelor (1581)
Books
Francis Drake and the Spanish Main
The Life of the Celebrated
2018
The Voyages and Travels of that Renowned Captain Sir F. Drake Into the West Indies, and Round about the World, Etc
Sir Francis Drake's Nautical Almanack 1546: This Facsimile is Taken from the Rare Copy in the Pepys Library (PL No. 1) and is Published with a Foreword by Sir Alec Rose, Kt. on the Occasion of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of Drake's Circumnavigation of the Globe : the Accompanying Explanatory Sheet is by Commander Derek Howse of The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich
A Full Relation of Another Voyage Into the West Indies: Made by Sir Francis Drake; Accompanied with Sir John Hawkins, Sir Thomas Baskerfield, Sir Nicholas Clifford, and Others. Who Set Forth from Plimouth on the 28Th of August 1595
The King of California: Pacific Adventures, No. 1
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