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| QUEEN ELIZABETH I SIR JOHN HAWKINS
"As treasurer (1577) and comptroller (1589) of the Royal Navy, Hawkins rebuilt older ships and helped design the faster ships that withstood the Spanish Armada in 1588. One of the foremost seamen of 16th-century England, Hawkins was the chief architect of the Elizabethan navy. In the battle in which the Spanish Armada was defeated in 1588, Hawkins served as a vice admiral. He was knighted for gallantry. He later devised the naval blockade to intercept Spanish treasure ships leaving Mexico and South America."-Wikipedia
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"Sir Francis Drake, vice admiral (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596[3]) was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver[4]and politician of the Elizabethan era. Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580, and was the first to complete the voyage as captain while leading the expedition throughout the entire circumnavigation."
Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588 and a cousin and close confidant of Hawkins." From Wikipedia
The people depicted above and whose biographies are linked to took a rag tag aging, and tiny English Navy and started it on its way to becoming a global force which would propel Great Britain into the first rank of nations. HEART OF OAK is an entertaining but historically accurate video that tells the story of the early rise of the British Navy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcKgDRqpMlo. Every Naval history buff should see HEART OF OAK then stay tuned for the various episodes of EMPIRE OF THE SEAS which follow and bring the story into modern times.
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Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588 and a cousin and close confidant of Hawkins." From Wikipedia
The people depicted above and whose biographies are linked to took a rag tag aging, and tiny English Navy and started it on its way to becoming a global force which would propel Great Britain into the first rank of nations. HEART OF OAK is an entertaining but historically accurate video that tells the story of the early rise of the British Navy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcKgDRqpMlo. Every Naval history buff should see HEART OF OAK then stay tuned for the various episodes of EMPIRE OF THE SEAS which follow and bring the story into modern times.
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