drake’s circumnavigation

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    1. December 1577: Drake takes five ships to raid Spanish ports in the Americas.
    2. June-July 1578: Drake responds to a rumour of mutiny by executing Thomas Doughty, his former friend.
    3. September 1578: Drake sails through the Straits of Magellan the first Englishman to do so. A storm destroys one ship and blows the others off course.
  • 4. The remaining ships sail up the coast and raid a
    number of Spanish ports.
    5. June 1579: With just his own ship remaining,
    Drake lands in North America and claims it fon
    Queen Elizabeth.
    6. March-June 1580: He navigates the dangerous
    Cape of Good Hope.
    7. 26 September: Drake returns to Plymouth.
    He was knighted (made a 'Sir') on board his
    ship te Golden Mind, by Elizabeth