Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake was Born near Devon in England.


Tavistock, Devenshire, England circa 1540

in 1577, England's Queen Elizabeth I sent Sir Francis Drake to look for the outlet to the passage on America's West coast.

As an Elizabethan seaman he followed the coasting trade for many years, but by 1565 he was voyaging to New Guinea and the Spanish Main. In 1567 he commanded theJudith and in 1570 and 1571 sailed to the West Indies to make good the losses he got from the Spanish. In May 1572 he equipped two small ships the Pashaand the Swan with 73 men, and landed at Nombre de Dios. On July 29 he beat off the Spanish, but suffered a wound. He burned Porto Bello, destroyed many ships, and crossed the isthmus to the highest point of the dividing ridge. He climbed a tree and saw the South Sea. Drake arrived at Plymouth Aug. 9, 1573 and the news of his travels made him a "rock star". In 1577 he fitted the Pelican with 100 tons, the Elizabeth of 80 tons and 3 smaller ships. He sailed out of Plymouth December 13; on Aug. 20, 1578, the squadron, reduced to three ships by the burning of 2, entered the Strait of Magellan where Drake changed his ship name to the Golden Hind. On entering the Pacific he encountered violent storms and lost the Marigold with all hands, and the Elizabeth returned home. Failing to find a passage to the Atlantic he turned and touched near the Golden Gate. He didn't sight land for 64 days until he made for Pelew Islands. After refitting in Java he headed for the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in England Sept. 26, 1580.The queen wasn't too sure how to receive Drake, but she paid a visit to his ship and knighted him. In the fall of 1585 he sailed 25 ships against the Spanish Indies and brought home 190 Virginian colonists with tobacco and potatoes. Early in 1587 he went to Cadiz and destroyed 33 ships and to the Azores capturing a Portuguese carack worth 100,000 pounds. He fought the Spanish Armada as part of the Eng. fleet in 1588. The next Spring he and Sir John Norrey's sailed for Spain and Portugal. They didn't accomplish much beyond inflicting damage to Spanish shipping. He will die of dysentery in Porto Bella in 1596.

Tobacco and the potato.

In fact it was Sir Walter Raleigh who brought the Potato and Tobacco to England, but on Sir Francis Drakes ship in 1580.

Sir Francis Drake was an English sea captain who sometimes benefitted from the backing of Queen Elizabeth I

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According to Anglo history, Sir Francis Drake died of dysentery on January 27, 1596, aged 55 while anchored off the coast of Puerto Bello, Panama after an unsuccessful campaign against the Spanish. He was buried at sea in a lead coffin, near Puerto Bello. According to Spanish history, he committed suicide rather than being taken captive by the Spanish.

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About 5.8" Muscular, Red hair and beard.

He is remembered today for dscovering part of California

The time period was 1542-1596

Sir Francis Bacon went to school at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, at the age of twelve.

Sir Francis Drake went on his famous circumnavigational trip for about 3 years. From 1577-1580

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

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The Swan was to be one of the boats that accompanied him on his circumnavigation of the world, but it lost in a storm in the Atlantic.

Francis Drake spent most of the time trying to capture Spanish ships because of the wealth they contained.

Lord Howard of Effingham was the actual commander of the English fleet.

During the whole battle only one Spanish ship was captured

he was hoping to achive his goal to find a route to asia

He was knighted and he received gold and silk.

Sir Francis Drake was knighted by queen Elizabeth on 4 April 1581 for having "Circuited round about the whole earth." She banqueted on board the "Golden Hinde", his ship, and "Consecrated it with great ceremony, pomp, and magnificence, eternally to be remembered."

Drake's voyage fostered the principle expressed by the Queen "That use of the sea as of the air is cocommon to all, and that that the public necessity permits not it should be possessed." Whereas, neither Spain nor Portugal should have an exclusive rights to the sea.

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Sir Frances Drake married twice, his first wife was Mary Newman, who he was married to from 1569 up until her death in 1581. He then married Elizabeth Sydenham in 1585 who was his wife up until his death in 1596.
He did not have any children with either wife.

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Drake was aware of it's importance as a trading commodity.

The Spanish explorers/traders/invaders noted that the Aztecs smoked a large rolled dried leaf.

Cortez, in particular was linked to tobacco.

The Spanish were the first to import the leaf and habit of smoking to Europe. Although sailors from all nations were quick to adopt the habit.

Drake was the first to bring a consignment of tobacco to the UK in 1573.

The spread of tobacco was swift.

Very soon it was grown throughout Europe.

Through the Europeans, it was traded to China. The Chinese then introduced it to Mongolia and Siberia.

It took about fifty years for smoking tobacco to spread the whole globe.