Francis Drake

Okay.

Would you rather spend a day with Henry VIII during one of his hunting trips, Elizabeth I, dancing and music, or Francis Drake on a naval expedition?

You and Francis Drake.

I

know, I love him.

I know what your choice would be.

You would pick Francis Drake.

Yes.

With this basis, the subsequent Spanish explorations could be gone over very rapidly, the matter of results alone being emphasized.

Similarly, The teacher might give a type lesson on Sir Francis Drake to form the basis for the English explorations of the 16th century.

Marquette might be selected to represent the French missionary activity.

For the period of colonization, one typical colony in each of the three groups could easily be selected.

in the present work professor mace has so far followed tradition but in the endeavor to secure more continuity of narrative than would otherwise be possible the stories have been gathered together in groups of two or three or more each man in the group appears in his proper historical perspective instead of being partially eclipsed by the fame of some great personage whose biography is used to cover a long period of time or several historical movements.

The author has selected his stories from those in which he finds a certain element of heroism, the term being broad enough, however, to cover the lives of Penn and Samuel F.

B. Morse, as well as those of Drake and John Paul Jones.

The heroism of some of our great men is shown by overcoming great obstacles, just as that of others is indicated by fighting the enemies of their country.

Grievous complaints were made against him, and he was at length recalled.

Drake was more successful.

He was a bold, undaunted, and energetic seaman, but unprincipled and merciless.

he manned and equipped his fleet and set sail towards the spanish possessions in america he attacked the colonies sacked the towns plundered the inhabitants intercepted the ships and searched them for silver and gold in a word he did exactly what pirates are hung for doing and execrated afterwards by all mankind but as queen elizabeth gave him permission to perform these exploits he has always been applauded by mankind as a hero We would not be understood as denying that there is any difference between burning and plundering innocent towns and robbing ships, whether there is or is not a governmental permission to commit these crimes.

There certainly is a difference.

It only seems to us surprising that there should be so great a difference as is made by the general estimation of mankind.

Drake, in fact, had acquired a great and honourable celebrity for such deeds before this time, by a similar expedition several years before, in which he had been driven to make the circumnavigation of the globe.

England and Spain were there nominally at peace, and the expedition was really in pursuit of prizes and plunder.

He says that if I attack the Spanish, we're serving the country, right? They attacked us a few years ago with the biggest fleet the world has ever seen.

And if things had been just a bit different, if Drake hadn't been around or certain others, they would have beat us.

What he's talking about here is the Spanish Armada, a famous naval event where basically the English were outgunned by these giant Spanish galleons coming to attack England, but they had a bunch of smaller, more maneuverable ships and managed to attack this large fleet opportunistically and outmaneuver them as they sailed to England.

Eventually, the Spanish Armada had to go all the way around England.

He says that if I attack the Spanish, we're serving the country, right? They attacked us a few years ago with the biggest fleet the world has ever seen.

And if things had been just a bit different, if Drake hadn't been around or certain others, they would have beat us.

What he's talking about here is the Spanish Armada, a famous naval event where basically the English were outgunned by these giant Spanish galleons coming to attack England, but they had a bunch of smaller, more maneuverable ships and managed to attack this large fleet opportunistically and outmaneuver them as they sailed to England.

Eventually, the Spanish Armada had to go all the way around England.