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Francis Drake
English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 13 July 1540, 1545, 1540
- Died
- 28 January 1596, 27 January 1596
- Conflict
- Anglo-Spanish War
- Place of birth
- Tavistock
- Place of death
- Portobelo
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Francis
- Family name
- Drake
- Father
- Edmund Drake
- Mother
- Mary Mylwaye
- Spouse
- Mary Newman, Elizabeth Sydenham
- Occupation
- explorer, sailor, politician, engineer, vice admiral, privateer, pirate, seafarer
- Position held
- Member of the 1572-83 Parliament, Member of the 1584-85 Parliament, Member of the 1593 Parliament
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England
- Awards
- Knight Bachelor
- cause of death
- dysentery
- depicted by
- Sir Francis Drake (1540?-1596), Sir Francis Drake, Sir Francis Drake (1540?-1596) (after Marcus Geeraerts, the younger)
- described by source
- Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Encyclopedia Americana, Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921, New International Encyclopedia, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3, Diccionario de Historia de Venezuela
- honorific prefix
- Sir
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Middle English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- military branch
- Royal Navy
- military, police or special rank
- vice admiral
- name in native language
- Francis Drake
- residence
- Buckland Abbey
- topic's main category
- Category:Francis Drake
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