Also if there be any here willing to return home let me understand of them … but let them take heed that they go homeward, for if I find them in my way I will surely sink them.
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Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English sea captain, slave trader, and privateer of the Elizabethan era. Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580, and was the first to complete the voyage as captain while leading the expedition throughout the entire circumnavigation. With his incursion into the Pacific Ocean, he claimed what is now California for the English and inaugurated an era of conflict with the Spanish on the western coast of the Americas, an area that had previously been largely unexplored by western shipping. Elizabeth I awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. As a Vice Admiral, he was second-in-command of the English fleet in the battle against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He died of dysentery in January 1596, after unsuccessfully attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico. Drake's exploits made him a hero to the English, but his privateering led the Spanish to brand him a pirate, known to them as El Draque. King Philip II allegedly offered a reward for his capture or death of 20,000 ducats, about £6 million (US$8 million) in modern currency. 2Birth and early years Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon, England. Although his birth date is not formally recorded, it is known that he was born while the Six Articles were in forc
But, my masters, I must have it left [stopped], for I must have the gentleman to hale and draw [work] with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. What, let us show ourselves all to be of a company and let us not give occasion to the enemy to rejoice at our decay and overthrow. I would know…
Wherefore we must have these mutinies and discords that are grown amongst us redressed, for by the life of God, it doth even take my wits from me to think on it. Here is such controversy between the sailors and gentlemen, and such stomaching between the gentlemen and sailors, it doth make me mad to…
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
If your Lordship vouchsafe the acceptance, ’tis yours, if the Reader can pick out either use or content, ’tis his, and I am pleased. Example being the publique, and your Lorships favor the private aime, of your humbly devoted
Columbus did neatly check his emulators, by rearing an egg without assistance. Let the slighter of this voyage apply.
Fame and envie are both needlesse to the dead because unknown, sometimes dangerous to the living when too well knowne: reason enough that I rather cause to say nothing, then too little, in the praise of the deceased Author, or of your Lordship my desired factor.