happy? - Sept 26 (Drake's Return)

26 Sep 05 - 09:04 AM (#1570820)
Subject: happy? - Sept 26 (Drake's Return)
From: Abby Sale

9/26/1580: Drake completes 1st circumnavigation of the globe by an Englishman (returning with ½ million £ of treasure)

         Then came the Lord Chamberlain with his white staff
          And all the people began to laugh;
          And then the Queen began to speak:
          'You're welcome home, Sir Francis Drake.'
  
                  "Upon Sir Francis Drake's Return from his Voyage about the
                  World, &c," Oxford Book of Sea Songs, Roy Palmer

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26 Sep 05 - 10:45 AM (#1570866)
Subject: RE: happy? - Sept 26 (Drake's Return)
From: Peace

http://www.mcn.org/2/oseeler/drake.htm

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26 Sep 05 - 11:03 AM (#1570878)
Subject: RE: happy? - Sept 26 (Drake's Return)
From: Peace

Sorry, Abby. The link above goes to a fairly good explication of Drake's life and his journey on the Golden Hind. Probably more than anyone wants to know, but . . . .

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26 Sep 05 - 12:25 PM (#1570921)
Subject: RE: happy? - Sept 26 (Drake's Return)
From: Le Scaramouche

Drake, whose name was used as the boogeyman's to frighten little children in Spain. Well up to the 1930s I believe.

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