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- Includes a contemporary bank account of Drake's voyage round the world.
- Discusses the legends and controversies encircling Drake's piracy and travels.
"There must be a newbie of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end, until it be carefully finished, yields the real glory." (Sir Francis Drake) The life of Sir Francis Drake, or, more accurately, the tale from it, is one of those prime cases that history is written by the winners. Drake was the most well-known sailor of the Elizabethan time, and he is definitely considered a hero by the English. His successes from the Spanish as a captain and a privateer were renowned, and Drake was celebrated for fighting with each other the Queen's enemies, sinking their boats, and recording the treasure that would otherwise be utilized to finance problems on Great britain. Drake vigorously pursued every mission directed at him by Elizabeth I and helped bring all his skill, experience, and training to keep against her enemies. He was recognized at courtroom for his valor, praised in account and songs, and kept in mind for the type of personality and esprit de corps that the English have long desired and celebrated in their armed service heroes. While that may have summarized Sir Francis Drake's life from an English perspective, that's not at all how the Spanish remember
El Draque (The Dragon), the 16th century's most notorious pirate. Referred to as "the root cause of wars" in one 1592 letter to the Spanish ruler, Phillip II, Drake harassed Spanish boats in several oceans and was so despised by the Spanish that Phillip II put the same as a $7 million bounty on his head. This should come as no surprise, given that Spanish accounts describe a captain who attacked and boarded Spanish merchant ships to steal their treasure and who made off with it in the type of haughty and remarkable ways which have become standard fare in pirate lore.
