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
After another raid on King Philip's American colonies in which he returned over L105,000, King Philip had decided that all these raids were an act of war. However this was the farthest from truth. 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. atholics came and forced them out. After this incident he moved to Plymouth and married a woman there by the name of Mary Newman on July 4, 1569. 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. On his circumnavigation of the world Drake captured many of King Philip's, cities and held them for ransom. 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 o
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