The Life, Voyages, and Exploits of Admiral Sir Francis Drake, Knt: With Numerous Original Letters from Him and the Lord High Admiral to the Queen and Great Officers of StateJ. Murray, 1843 - Всего страниц: 428 Francis Drake was among the most successful explorers and naval officers of England in the Elizabethan era, successfully circumnavigating the globe and emerging victorious against the Spanish Armada. This biography discusses the most notable accomplishments of Francis Drake, and the role he assumed on voyages around the world. Although the numerous successes he enjoyed on his daring expeditions gained him plaudits in his native England, for the Spanish he was considered a ruthless and menacing pirate for his coastal raids upon settlements. Between 1577 and 1580 Drake succeeded in circumnavigating the world on a single voyage, an achievement which symbolized the growing naval prowess of his nation. A lengthy, blow-by-blow account of the battle with the Spanish Armada spans some three chapters of this text. Feared for its sheer numbers and tonnage, Spain's enormous fleet proved to be unwieldy in battle: novel tactics, such as England's use of ships set aflame and driven toward the enemy's tightly-packed vessels, drove the Armada off. However, as this biography notes, the victory was also thanks to the levelheadedness of Drake and his fellow commanders. |
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... doubt also of the name of the father , as it appears by the pedigree to be Robert ( instead of Edmund ) , the third son of John Drake of Otterton ; but of the father we hear no- thing whatever in the course of the numerous nar- ratives ...
... feelings , as offering a field for adventure ; and the idea of sharing the dangers and the fortunes of one , who had always befriended him in his earlier days , removed all doubt and * Johnson's Works . CH . 7 1. I. TO THE WEST INDIES . ]
... doubt based on mercantile speculation , and perhaps , among other things , in the traffic for slaves , as an outward - bound cargo . Nor can there be any doubt that , by the knowledge acquired in the first of these voyages , he was ...
... doubt , for the slave - mar- ket ; and we are the more desirous of doing so , to show in what manner the slave - trade was then car- ried on , and that the unsophisticated mind of young * Hakluyt . 10 [ CH . I. EXPEDITION OF HAWKINS.
... doubts , I thought rather better to abide the jutt of the uncertainty than the certainty ; the un- certain doubt , I account , was their treason , which , by good policy , I hoped might be prevented ; and therefore , as choosing the ...