Francis Drake: The Dark Side Of Elizabeth I's Favourite Pirate | Great Adventurer | Absolute History
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Published 2023-02-12
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All Comments (21)
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My great uncle was a sailor that died on a shipwreck my grandfather, father, uncle and aunt all sailed and I grew up admiring their sea stories and later found out about Sir Francis Drake and wanted to explore the world like him. I became a merchant marine and learned all about the engine room, and deck side navigation and deck work. I spent 25 years as a merchant marine that sailed the 7 seas. I had some great adventures
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You forgot the part where he faked his death then later discovered the treasure of El dorado and died trying to fight off the cursed Spaniards!
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One man’s pirate is another queen’s privateer!
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Loved this dude on Digrassi
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And at 6:33 we have a lovely shot of a surfaced submarine which - judging by its wash, is doing in the region of 10 knots against the wind I love such authenticity....
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This is better then the Superbowl
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As someone who’s born and raised in Plymouth Drake is a hero for us, ok he was born in Tavistock which is 10 miles outside of Plymouth but we still count him as one of our own as Plymouth is were the navel base is and was in his time as Tavistock is a small town today and it would’ve been an even smaller town on Dartmoor back then
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Took me a long while, but Uncharted: Drake's Fortune brought me here.
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VERY INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE , never knew Hawkins and Drake was related
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It's basically how you see yourself (the Brits) vs how others see you (the Spanish).
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Way better than the Super Bowl
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That's is a really well told story
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So many ads smh
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Brilliant !!
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Gravelines: Gra-vel-EEns.
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I do wish that people narrating would learn to pronounce Magellan with a soft g not a hard one.
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WOW, they made the dude from the uncharted games into a real person!
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Burning people at the stake for not being papists is not like today where you merely passively aggressively invite em over to your manor to burn em a steak when you know they're all vegetarian.
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Its really ironic he landed on point reyes and i live in california. Although i dont condone his actions his accomplishments as a sailor are a great source of pride for me.
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Thank you for this. A great read on Drake is the book "The Wind Commands me " By Ernle Bradford. Excellent and quite informative. By the way, I am a descendant of Adam of Adam and Eve. lol!
