Sir Francis Drake
Knighted English privateer
Sir Francis Drake was an English sea captain and privateer of the Elizabethan era, the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.
He raided Spanish ships and settlements in the Americas, making him a hero to the English and a pirate to the Spanish.
Drake played a key role in defeating the Spanish Armada in 1588.
His name appears in various place names, particularly along the California coast.
- circumnavigationComplete journey around something
- Golden HindSixteenth-century circumnavigating galleon
- PlymouthEnglish port city
- West CountryEngland's rural southwest
- privateerAuthorized civilian warship
Cadiz · heroism · Elizabeth I · Tudor dynasty · San Francisco Bay · Caribbean Sea · Pacific Ocean · naval strategy · cannon fire · cartography · piracy · Cape Horn · Spanish Main · mercantilism · naval blockade · Armada · plunder · colonial expansion
- Tudor FiguresHenry VII, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Mary I, Edward VI
- Navyadmiral, battleship, destroyer, aircraft carrier, cruiser
- Piratespirate, buccaneer, corsair, corsairs, privateers
- British KnightsSir Walter Raleigh, Sir Thomas More, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Alex Ferguson
- Legendary VoyagersOdysseus, Ulysses, Jason, Sinbad, Aeneas
- seafarerssailor, seaman, mariner, able seaman, merchant seaman