Francis Drake
Golden Hind captain
Francis Drake was an English sea captain and privateer of the sixteenth century, the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.
He conducted raids on Spanish ships and ports in the Americas and played a prominent role in defeating the Spanish Armada in 1588.
Queen Elizabeth I knighted him aboard his ship, the Golden Hind.
To the Spanish, he was a pirate; to the English, a national hero.
Honorary title of nobility
- bowlsDeep rounded containers
- national heroCelebrated defender of country
- sea dogVeteran mariner
- villainWicked story antagonist
colonialism · slave trade · controversial · legend · folklore · Devon · statue · commemoration
Sixteenth-century circumnavigating galleon
- Spice IslandsIndonesian seasoning-source archipelago
- Cape HornSouth America's southernmost point
- CaliforniaWest coast megastate
- Tierra del FuegoIslands near Cape Horn
cartography · charted · navigation · astrolabe · compass
Defeated invasion fleet
- fleetVehicles under unified command
- defeatVictory over another
- EnglandLargest British country
- SpainIberian Peninsula country
Elizabeth I · Philip II · invincible · galleons · fire ships · English Channel · Plymouth · Howard
Western Hemisphere landmasses
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
- Age of DiscoveryEuropean maritime expansion era
- ElizabethanOf late 1500s England
- navigatorRoute-directing crew member
mariner · voyager · cartography · uncharted waters · Pacific · Atlantic · West Indies · Caribbean
State license to raid enemies
- Queen Elizabeth ILast Tudor sovereign
- privateeringLicensed wartime ship seizure
- Spanish goldIberian precious metal
- plunderGoods seized violently
treasure · prize money · raiding · Spanish Main · Cadiz · capture · spoils · galleons
knighthood
Honorary title of nobility
- bowlsDeep rounded containers
- national heroCelebrated defender of country
- sea dogVeteran mariner
villain · colonialism · slave trade · controversial · legend · folklore · Devon · statue · commemoration
Golden Hind
Sixteenth-century circumnavigating galleon
- Spice IslandsIndonesian seasoning-source archipelago
- Cape HornSouth America's southernmost point
- CaliforniaWest coast megastate
Tierra del Fuego · cartography · charted · navigation · astrolabe · compass
Spanish Armada
Defeated invasion fleet
Spain · Elizabeth I · Philip II · invincible · galleons · fire ships · English Channel · Plymouth · Howard · Hawkins
New World
Western Hemisphere landmasses
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
- Age of DiscoveryEuropean maritime expansion era
- ElizabethanOf late 1500s England
navigator · mariner · voyager · cartography · uncharted waters · Pacific · Atlantic · West Indies · Caribbean · Panama
letters of marque
State license to raid enemies
- Queen Elizabeth ILast Tudor sovereign
- privateeringLicensed wartime ship seizure
- Spanish goldIberian precious metal
plunder · treasure · prize money · raiding · Spanish Main · Cadiz · capture · spoils · galleons · merchant ships
- ExplorersColumbus, Christopher Columbus, Magellan, Cortez, Marco Polo
- CircumnavigatorsFerdinand Magellan, Chichester
- Piratespirate, buccaneer, corsair, corsairs, privateers
- seafarerssailor, seaman, mariner, able seaman, merchant seaman
- Early Modern EnglandLondon, Shakespeare, Globe Theatre, Queen Elizabeth, Cromwell
- Elizabethan NavyWalter Raleigh, sea dogs, privateers, Spanish Armada, galleons
Drake, Franciscan, Frances, Francis, Francisco, Franciscans, Francesca, Franz