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Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) was an English privateer, navigator, naval hero, politician and civil engineer of the Elizabethan period.

He was the first English man to circumnavigate the globe. In the wake of his attack on Cadiz? and his exploits in the Caribbean?, the Spanish Main, Drake earned the nickname El Draque, "The Dragon".

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