“[The Spanish] were caught unawares and unguarded ... Some evidence suggests Sir Francis Drake careened his ship here in 1579. Kristian Foden-Vencil / OPB “The boundary of New Spain was ...

Sir Francis Drake made some remarkable journeys ... In 1568 these adventures ended abruptly when the Spanish defeated the English ships at the Battle of San Juan de Ulú. Sign up for our newsletter!

Sir Francis Drake earned glory for England by plundering Spanish targets around the world. Now historians are exploring his part in the slave trade for a fuller look at this sea dog's life.

Pat Croce is a man on a mission – a mission to find his all time favorite pirate. The highly successful businessman, who rose from being a trainer in the locker room to president of one of the ...

Twenty-three years later, Spanish galleons began sailing from ... the gaudy Beefeater uniforms worn by the doormen at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, and the enduring local fascination with the ...

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 ...

A sculpture of controversial British explorer and pirate Sir Francis Drake no longer stands by the ... by Queen Elizabeth to raid and loot the Spanish, and a vice admiral in the fleet that ...

The team's marine archaeologist, Jim Sinclair, said: "Finding the Elizabeth and Delight near where Sir Francis Drake is buried is as exciting to me as helping discover the (Spanish galleon ...

Only Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer supported by the Spanish crown ... A 16th-century map showing the route of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation Public domain via Wikimedia Commons ...

DRAKE’S drum beats bravely through the biography of Sir Francis Drake by E ... of his equipment for sailing round the world, emptying Spanish treasure ships and otherwise singeing King Philip ...