Drake

• Born 1540

  died 1596
• Became an English hero, but the Spanish saw him as a pirate and called him el draque
• Didn’t intend to circumnavigate the globe - he set out to take revenge on the Spanish for San Juan Ulúa
• Returned from his circumnavigation with so much gold the half he gave to the queen was more than the royal income of the previous year
• Knighted in 1581
• In 1588, he defeated the Spanish Armada