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    Francis Drake's circumnavigation, also known as Drake's Raiding Expedition, was an important historical maritime event that took place between 15 December...
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    Francis Drake began a circumnavigation which would last for 1046 days. Before this journey, only a single expedition had completed a circumnavigation...
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    Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition...
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    Bransfield Strait Sars Bank Timeline of Francis Drake's circumnavigation "6 men become 1st to cross perilous Drake Passage unassisted". AP NEWS. Associated...
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    Spanish and Portuguese treasures, most notably as a result of Francis Drake's circumnavigation. The term Elizabethan era was already well-established in English...
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    1600. Pretty is also often credited for the account of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation (1577–1580). According to Henry Raup Wagner however, it is...
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    the 16th Century, following Francis Drake's circumnavigation, Queen Elizabeth I declared that all written accounts of Drake's voyages were to become the...
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  • Sir Francis Drake is the earliest detailed account of Francis Drake's circumnavigation. It was compiled by Drake's nephew, also named Francis Drake, based...
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    a planet or moon). This article focuses on the circumnavigation of Earth. The first circumnavigation of the Earth was the Magellan Expedition, which...
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    Golden Hind (category Francis Drake)
    galleon captained by Francis Drake in his circumnavigation of the world between 1577 and 1580. She was originally known as Pelican, but Drake renamed her mid-voyage...
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