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Francis Drake

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Noun

1. drake, francis drake, sir francis drake

English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Francis Drake

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English naval hero and explorer who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world (1577-1580) and was vice admiral of the fleet that destroyed the Spanish Armada (1588).

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