Sir Francis Drake

Francis Drake was born sometime between 1540 and 1545 on a farm near Tavistock in Devon, a country in southwest England. Drake was born to his father Edmond who was a sailor and married woman of the Mylwaye whose first name was lost to history. Despite not knowing her name, we know that she had 12 children that survived through there infancy. Francis was the first born, or at least the first to survive.

Francis was born during a time of a religious revolution. Led by the German monk Martin Luther, his new religious party the Protestant Reformation rebelled against the catholic churches. The churches back then were corrupted and granted penance for your sins at a price. Martin Luther saw this as wrong and placed flyers on the posting of their wrong doings and thus began the Protestant Reformation.

Drake was a young man when his family was driven from their house in Devon when a mob a C

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Queen Elizabeth was opposed to war, and was always willing to do anything to avoid it, but she didn’t realize that sending Drake on his raids would be considered an act of war. Each investor of his voyage had a return of 4,700 percent. After this incident he moved to Plymouth and married a woman there by the name of Mary Newman on July 4, 1569. Sir Francis Drake passed away quietly on January 26, 1596. From there, he traveled north up to the area of present-day Alaska, and then followed the coast down south of South America, and came back up across the Atlantic Ocean to England. During his occupation of these towns, he would have his crew dismember the town brick by brick and when he received the ransom he would burn the rest of the town down. On his deathbed he got up and had a fellow seaman help him into his armor so that he could die a soldiers death.

His journey led him down south of Africa, and then to the north of Australia. Surprisingly though, this wasn’t even a minor portion of the treasure he amounted. During his planned siege, he was caught off guard in the battle and was forced to retreat into a nearby jungle.

King Philip had had enough he assembled the finest fleet he could find, that would eventually become known as the Spanish Armada. With the blessing of Queen Elizabeth Francis Drake set out on his trip around the world in 1577, the journey that he is most remembered for. Queen Elizabeth got more money from this than an entire year of taxes; she used this money to pay off the national debt.

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