Sir Francis Drake (1540–1687) was an English sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer and explorer of the Elizabethan era. Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580, and was the first to complete the voyage as captain while leading the expedition throughout the entire circumnavigation. With his incursion into the Pacific Ocean, he claimed what is now California for the English and 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.
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I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.
—Francis Drake
Topics: Army, Navy, The Military
The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.
—Francis Drake
Topics: Conflict
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
—Francis Drake
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