Drake Sir Francis 1540?-1596 Sailed From Plymouth For The River

Plate, 1577; passed through the Straits of Magellan, 1578; plundered

Valparaiso, 1579, and explored the western coast of North America the

same year; returned to England, 1580, by way of the Cape of Good Hope.

Vice-admiral of the fleet in the defeat of the Spanish Armada off

Gravelines, 1588. Died on board his own ship off Porto Bello and buried

at sea. =Index=: (Sir James Douglas era) On Pacific coast, 7, 8; lays foundation of British

naval supremacy, 16; takes possession of Pacific coast for Queen

Elizabeth, 62; and the Spaniards, 147. =Bib.=: Southey, Lives of the

Admirals; Corbett, Drake and the Tudor Navy; Payne, Voyages of the

Elizabethan Seamen to America; Froude, English Seamen in the

Seventeenth Century; Laut, Vikings of the Pacific; Dict. Nat. Biog.