Sir Francis Drake

Connected Sites: 10

Definition
Sir Francis Drake was a 16th century English sailor, privateer, navigator and slave trader.

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Connected Sites

  • Santo Domingo
    Santo Domingo
    Dominican Republic
    Inscribed: 1990
    3.00
    88
    5
    "In 1586, the privateer Sir Francis Drake captured the city and held it for ransom" (wiki)
  • La Fortaleza and San Juan
    La Fortaleza and San Juan
    United States of America
    Inscribed: 1983
    3.25
    121
    5
  • Tower of Hercules
    Inscribed: 2009
    2.67
    159
    5
    in 1589 "leads a fleet with 176 ships and 5000 men on an attack against a Coruna. 6 soldiers are stationed in the tower to defend it and they hold out for 9 days, their only source of food being birds they manage to capture" (Quote from display in the Torre's Visitor Centre)
  • Santiago de Compostela
    Inscribed: 1985
    3.56
    228
    7
    "Curiously, until the 19th c. worshippers could not visit the relics, which in fact had been "missing" since the 16th century. It turns out that they were hidden in 1589 to prevent Sir Francis Drake from stealing them and taking them to England. However, in the end, the "pirate" did not even reach Compostela."
    See www.santiagoturismo.com
  • Cidade Velha
    Cidade Velha
    Cabo Verde
    Inscribed: 2009
    1.92
    53
    3
    Attacked it
  • Westminster
    Westminster
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.61
    633
    16
    Westminster Abbey contains a modern Memorial (1979) to 3 British "Cimcumnavigators" of different eras - including Drake. See
    See www.westminster-abbey.org
  • Cartagena
    Cartagena
    Colombia
    Inscribed: 1984
    3.37
    138
    5
  • Portobelo-San Lorenzo
    Inscribed: 1980
    2.70
    68
    6
  • Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
    Inscribed: 2006
    3.10
    159
    11
    Drake was born c1544 in Tavistock within the inscribed boundary - "at Crowndale Farm, just to the west of what is now Tavistock College. A Blue Plaque is mounted on the current farmhouse, behind which Drake is believed to have been born, the original farmhouse having been dismantled and the stone transported for use in Lew Trenchard"
  • Cape Floral Region
    Inscribed: 2004
    3.40
    172
    5
    In 1580 he described Table Mountain" as "A most stately thing and the fairest cape in the whole circumference of the globe"