Up To The Minute Contributor Ed Boyle looks back 400 years for the real reason Sir Francis Drake beat the Spanish Armada. Four hundred and four years ago, the Spanish tried to do a D-Day here in ...

A statue of Spanish Armada hero Sir Francis Drake in his home town has been given a new information panel detailing his slave trading expeditions. The monument to the Elizabethan sailor in ...

Sir Francis Drake Primary School in Deptford ... who was knighted in Deptford in 1581 before helping defeat the Spanish Armada’s invasion of England in 1588. Headteacher Karen Cartwright ...

A plucky band of explorers and privateers—including Sir Francis Drake, Sir Martin Frobisher ... First published 1988 but substantially expanded since then, Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England’s ...

Sir Francis Drake, for whom San Francisco's iconic ... As a vice-admiral in the British Navy, he helped crush the Spanish Armada, a turning point in British history. Those swashbuckling feats ...

on an encounter with Sir Francis' ghost. JUST IN: Uni students lose battle to tear down Nelson and Drake statues The Trust added: "Some said that he had only defeated the Spanish Armada because ...

A leat commissioned by none other than Plymouth's own privateer and Elizabethan sailing legend Sir Francis ... of the contract, Drake, who famously helped defeat the Spanish Armada, was granted ...