Francis Drake
1540 – 1596 English sea captain, privateer, admiral
The privateer and admiral who circled the globe and helped scatter the Armada.
- Religion
- Protestant.
- Affiliations
- Elizabethan navy and privateering ventures.
Francis Drake was the most feared English seaman of the age, a privateer whom the Spanish called El Draque, the Dragon. He completed the second circumnavigation of the globe, was knighted by Elizabeth on his own deck, and served as second in command against the Armada.
Connections
- ally of Elizabeth I — Elizabeth backed and knighted Drake, sharing in his plunder of Spanish treasure.
- associate of John Dee — Dee tutored and advised the Elizabethan navigators on the mathematics of exploration.
In the timeline
- 1577 – 1580 Drake's circumnavigation of the globe commander
- 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada vice admiral