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The 15. day of November, in the year of our Lord 1577, Master Francis Drake, with a fleet of five ships and barks,1 and to the number of 164 men, gentlemen and sailors, departed from Plymouth, giving out his pretended voyage for Alexandria. But the w ...
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- A Drake Sir Francis
Sir Francis Drake 1540?96, English navigator and explorer, born near Tavistock. He served an apprenticeship as a mariner, and in 1567 he was given his first command. His ship, the Judith, was one of a squadron of vessels led by a kinsman of Drake, th ...
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571859/Sir_Francis_Drake.html
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- The Drake Francis
I was born in 1541 in a cottage made of rough tree branches on a nobleman’s estate in the country of England. The estate was located in Tavistock, twenty miles north of the seaport of Plymouth. I am the oldest of eleven brothers. My father, Edmund, w ...
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/sir_francis_drake.htm
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- The Francis Drake
Francis Drake was an experienced and daring seafarer. Among many adventures, the famous voyage, his successful circumnavigation of the world between 1577 and 1580 ensured that he would be one of the best remembered figures of Tudor England.In his own ...
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/drake
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- A Francis Drake
In 1577 Queen Elizabeth I commissioned three men to sail around the world. On November 15, 1577, under the command of three captains, Sir Francis Drake, John Winter, and Thomas Doughty, the Queens Corsair set sail from Plymouth to the Spanishcontroll ...
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/SirFrancisDrake.h...
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