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Francis Drake
  • Competition: Britain’s Heroes
  • Description: Sir Francis Drake (c.  1540 – 28 January 1596)[3] was an English explorer, sea captain, privateer, slave trader,naval officer, and politician. Drake is best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580. This included his incursion into the Pacific Ocean, until then an area of exclusive Spanish interest, and his claim to New Albion for England, an area in what is now the U.S. state of California. His expedition 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.
  • Url / Web link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Drake
  • Photo author: Autor: Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger – Web Gallery of Art: Obrázek Info about artwork, Volné dílo, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=527013

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