About Sir Francis Drake
Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon. Tavistock, Devon is a market village in England.
Drake was the oldest of 12 sons. They have no record of when he was born. People think he was born in 1540.
Marriage: Sir Francis Drake married Mary Newman in 1569. Mary died 12 years later. Drake then married Elizabeth Sydenham in 1585. After Drake died Elizabeth married Sir William Courtenay.
History: When he was 23 he made his first voyage to the New World. Back
then the Western Hemisphere was called the New World.
Sir Francis Drake sailed until his mid-fifties. Drake failed to conquer the port of Las Palmas in 1595. Following a horrible campaign against the Spanish American. Later Spanish Gunners from El Morro Castle had shot a cannonball through a window in the cabin of Sir Francis’s flagship. He survived but later died from a disease called Dysentery. Dysentery is a bad disease where you get a fever, abdominal pain feeling of incomplete defeaction.
Drake had no children so all of his estate was passed onto his nephew also named Francis. Today Sir Francis Drake would be worth Equivalent US $122.6 million today.
Drake was the oldest of 12 sons. They have no record of when he was born. People think he was born in 1540.
Marriage: Sir Francis Drake married Mary Newman in 1569. Mary died 12 years later. Drake then married Elizabeth Sydenham in 1585. After Drake died Elizabeth married Sir William Courtenay.
History: When he was 23 he made his first voyage to the New World. Back
then the Western Hemisphere was called the New World.
Sir Francis Drake sailed until his mid-fifties. Drake failed to conquer the port of Las Palmas in 1595. Following a horrible campaign against the Spanish American. Later Spanish Gunners from El Morro Castle had shot a cannonball through a window in the cabin of Sir Francis’s flagship. He survived but later died from a disease called Dysentery. Dysentery is a bad disease where you get a fever, abdominal pain feeling of incomplete defeaction.
Drake had no children so all of his estate was passed onto his nephew also named Francis. Today Sir Francis Drake would be worth Equivalent US $122.6 million today.
"There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals."
– Francis Drake
– Francis Drake