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The swashbuckling English sea captains of the Elizabethan era were a particular breed of adventurer, combining maritime and military skill with a seemingly insatiable appetite for Spanish treasure. ... Angus Konstam describes these characters, including such well-known sea dogs as Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh,
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The first famed sea dog was John Hawkins, a shipowner, merchant, and privateer whose three voyages to the Caribbean via the Guinea coast between 1562 and 1568 initiated the English slave trade and directly challenged the Spanish crown's exclusive economic exploitation of ... K. R. Andrews, Elizabethan privateering:
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Admiral John Hawkins is often remembered as one of the greatest men in the early English navy. ... Hawkins began his career on the high seas in 1555 when he left England with three ships on a somewhat unspecified mission to the Spanish Main (the modern Caribbean). On the way, ... Nearly ten years later,
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Sir Francis Drake, Elizabethan Sea Dog ... Sir Francis Drake, navigator and privateer, is one of the greatest English sea-captains. Much has been written about Drake. This page is just to record his mainly connections with Cornwall.
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The title of the present volume, Elizabethan Sea-Dogs, gives the only answer. It was during the reign of Elizabeth, the last of the Tudor sovereigns of England, that Englishmen won the command of the sea under the consummate leadership of Sir Francis Drake, the first of modern admirals.
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The Spanish Armada was far less formidable than we have always heard, and the English Sea Dogs far less overmatched. Despite almost impossible odds against the Armada, Spain actually came very close to mounting a successful invasion of England in 1588. ... back to article index ... back to homepage...
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Download the free ebook: Elizabethan Sea Dogs by William Charles Henry Wood ... Author Wood, William Charles Henry, 1864-1947 ... Title Elizabethan Sea Dogs...
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