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After circumnavigating the globe, defeating the Spanish Armada, and aiding the Portugese monarch, Queen Elizabeth I put Sir Francis Drake in charge of an English fleet whose mission was to raid the Spanish Main, plunder New World coastal cities, and establish the superiority of English seapower. Over 750 of his men perished in this expedition, including Captain Walter Biggs, the man appointed by Drake to write the official account of the perilous voyage.Included in this edition is Chalmer's 1812 Biography of Sir Francis Drake, which hails him as one of England's greatest naval heroes...


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