Francis Drake: The Dark Side Of Elizabeth I's Favourite Pirate | Great Adventurer

Every British schoolchild knows that Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe on the Golden Hind. Drake, a clever and fearless sailor in the new era of colonialism, was employed by the English aristocracy to amass great wealth through plunder and the slave trade. He was regarded by the English as a...

55 min - Oceans - Absolute History

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