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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: People from Buckland Monachorum, People from Okehampton, People from Tavistock, Devon, Francis Drake, John Maynard, Angela Mudge, Seth Lakeman, Richard Grenville, Robert Timbrell, The Rumble Strips, Pete Quaife, John Surman, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Jack Hillman, Andy Hicks, James Withycombe, Ernest Knapman, Dominic Wood, Jeremy Black, Thomas Davey, Norman Piper, Francis William Drake, Robert Fetherstonhaugh, Sam Lakeman, Kevin Willcock, Steve Ridgway, Sean Lakeman, Colin McFadyean, Jasper Mayne, Elizabeth Charles, Edmund Sedding, William Browne, Gerald Parsons, Robbie Pethick, John Glanville, Henry Ley, Graham Dawe, Corelli Collard Field, Maurice Wilder-Neligan, John Foot, Baron Foot, Charlie Waller, Antony Andrewes, Herbert Sims. Excerpt: Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral (1540 - 27 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He also carried out the second circumnavigation of the world, from 1577 to 1580. He died of dysentery in January 1596 after unsuccessfully attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico. His exploits were legendary, making him a hero to the English but a pirate to the Spaniards to whom he was known as El Draque, 'Draque' being the Spanish pronunciation of 'Drake'. His name in Latin was Franciscus Draco ('Francis the Dragon'). King Philip II was claimed to have offered a reward of 20,000 ducats, about 4,000,000 (US$6.5M) by modern standards, for his life. Portrait miniature of Drake, by Nicholas Hilliard in 1581Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon, in February or March 1544 at the earliest, when his namesake godfather Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford was but age 17. Although Drake's birth is n...
