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The English privateer Sir Francis Drake is known for stealing from Spanish ships and completing a circumnavigation of the world from 1577 to 1580. He plundered numerous Spanish vessels and settlements along the way, amassing a significant fortune for himself and Queen Elizabeth I of England.

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What did Sir Francis Drake do?

The Spaniards were trying to kill him because he stole most of their boats and rescources.


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Because he stole and destroyed their ships and he stole all of their riches


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What greatly angered the Spanish?

because the spanish went to get gold and the colonists did too and so on the way back they attacked the spanish ships and stole there gold. then afterwards some colonists went back to start a life there because they were tired of having to go to the church that the king said they had to go to.


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