Drake, Sir Francis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...1596, English navigator and admiral, first Englishman to circumnavigate the world (1577 80). Early Career He was born in Devonshire...and, with the remaining three, navigated the Straits of Magellan, the first Englishman to make the passage. A storm drove...