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Title: Francis Drake and Henry Morgan


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Francis Drake and Henry Morgan
  • By Brittney Charbonneau

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Francis Drake1540-1596
  • Francis Drake was born in Devon, England
  • He was the first Englishman to sail around the
    world
  • He made three voyages to the new world

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Francis Drake
  • Francis Drakes ships were The Golden Hind and
    Drakes ship
  • Drake was so feared by Spanish people that they
    called him El Draque or The Dragon
  • He was also a talented navigator

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Map of his voyages
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Francis Drake
  • He was also the most renowned seamen of all time
  • Was the son of Edmund Drake
  • Their religion was protestant
  • Began his career in 1566 and ended it when he died

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Henry Morgan1635?-1688
  • Henry Morgan was not a pirate, he was a
    privateer, this means he held a paper that told
    him to fight
  • Henry Morgan was a sea raider
  • Henry Morgan is blurred by myth historians can
    not tell his birth place

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Henry Morgan
  • Henry Morgans youth is unknown
  • He became a buccaneer
  • Historians say he was born around 1635
  • How Henry Morgan ever reached the Caribbean's is
    unknown

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Pictures
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Henry Morgan
  • In his youth he went to the West Indies
  • He is one of the known famous privateer of Panama
  • Sir Henry Morgan was Knighted in 1673
  • He was made lieutenant of Jamaica

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The End
  • By Brittney

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Bibliography
  • www.data-wales.co.uk/morgan.htm
  • www.cavazzi.com/morgan/
  • www.mcn.org/2/oseeler/drake.htm
  • www.global-travel.co.uk/drake.htm
  • And lots of other sites including google
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