Sir Francis Drake

Enchanted Learning.com http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/d/drake.shtml

Information Please http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/francisdrake.html

Sir Francis Drake is described on this site as a captain, navigator, and a politician. http://www.buzzle.com/articles/biography-of-sir-francis-drake.html

More than four centuries have passed since Sir Francis Drake led an exploration off the coast of California. This site features an article about a recent group of people who retraced part of the voyage taken by Drake in the 16th century. Learn about the maps, charts, and records used to navigate the places he sailed. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/12/MN2J19KKLS.DTL

St. Augustine, Florida, is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It has the distinction of being one of the places Spanish and English ships battled for power and land in the late 1500s. This site includes excerpts from the book St. Augustine Under Three Flags: Tourist Guide and History, written in 1918. Readers will learn about the voyage of Sir Francis Drake to St. Augustine and some of the events that took place there. http://fcit.usf.edu/FLORIDA/docs/d/drakeF.htm

Learn about the voyages that brought Drake to the New World and his quest to defeat the Spanish fleets that also occupied the same waters.  Also learn about his personal life and his later life before his death in 1596. http://www.nps.gov/fora/forteachers/sir-francis-drake.htm

During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Drake became one of the most famous seafarers in England's history. http://www.nmm.ac.uk/drake

This is from the Mariner’s Museum and has many pages. http://ww2.mariner.org/exploration/index.php?type=explorer&id=27