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When was francis drake born and diedSir Francis Drake (c - c)
Sir Francis Drake ©Drake was an Elizabethan sailor and navigator, and the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.
Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon in around and went to sea at an early age.
In , Drake made one of the first English slaving voyages as part of a fleet led by his cousin John Hawkins, bringing African slaves to work in the 'New World'. All but two ships of the expedition were lost when attacked by a Spanish squadron.
The Spanish became a lifelong enemy for Drake and they in turn considered him a pirate.
In and , Drake made two profitable trading voyages to the West Indies. In , he commanded two vessels in a marauding expedition against Spanish ports in the Caribbean.
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He saw the Pacific Ocean and captured the port of Nombre de Dios on the Isthmus of Panama. He returned to England with a cargo of Spanish treasure and a reputation as a brilliant privateer. In , Drake was secretly commissioned by Elizabeth I to set off on
