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Early sea career

At the age of eighteen, Francis Drake sailed to the Bay of Biscay, and he was a purser of the ship. At twenty, Drake made a voyage to the Coast of Guinea. When Francis Drake was 23 years old in 1563, he established his first voyages to the Americas. Sir Francis Drake started his long career as a slave trader. His first significant expeditions when Drake was a young man came in the 1560s by the time Drake joined his cousin, Sir John Howkins, on some of Britain's earliest slave-trading voyages to West Africa. They were attacking native villages or Portuguese slave ships. Journeys would transport the slaves to the Spanish Caribbean and sell them off to local plantations. That action was illegal under Spanish law. During one of their slaving expeditions in 1568, Spanish ships trapped their vessels. Many of the members of the crew were killed or captured. Sir Francis Drake escaped without any harm, but the defeat left him with a seething hatred for Spain and Philip II, their king.

Sir Francis Drake, born in Tavistock in 1540, was an Elizabethan era sea captain, naval officer, pirate and explorer, and a slave trader. Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, naval officer, and explorer. Drake is best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580. This included his incursion into the Pacific Ocean, until then an area of exclusive Spanish interest, and his claim to New Albion for England, an area in what is now the American.

Voyages to the West Indies

Sir Francis Drake made the second Voyage with John Howkins to West India in 1570 and 1571, which were his two most profitable trading voyages. There were two vessels under his command, and he aimed to capture Nombre De Dio, Pan, which was the unique colon town in Panama.

During this attack, Drake was wounded and failed. But this attack was maybe the foundation of his fortune. Francis Drake crossed the Isthmus of Panama, and he first saw the pacific.

The most celebrated of Sir Francis Drake's adventures along the Spain Main was that he captured a Spanish Silver Train at Nombre de Dios in 1573. After their attack on the mule train, Drake and his crew members found out that they had caught over 20 tons of gold and silver. It was too many treasures to carry that why they buried much of the silver, gold, and treasure. Francis Drake returned to England, both famous and wealthy.

Places Sir Francis Drake Explored

It was during that expedition when Francis Drake climbed a high tree in the central mountains of the Isthmus of Panama. And he became the first Englishman to see the Pacific Ocean.

Sir Francis Drake Slavery

After the famous raids of Francis Drake, it was unable to acknowledge Drake's accomplishment officially because the government signed an interim truce with King Philip of Spain. For his most essential raids, Francis Drake is considered as a hero of England and the pirate in Spain.