Robert Remini
speaker
20,180 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 19 Sep
Robert Remini’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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21.
Sir John Hawkins For many years after Cabot's voyage, Englishmen were too busy at home to pay much attention to distant expeditions.
But, in Queen Elizabeth's time, English seamen began to sail to America.
The first of them to win a place in history was John Hawkins.
He carried cargos of Negro slaves from Africa to the West Indies and sold them to the Spanish planters.
On his third voyage, he was basely attacked by the Spaniards and lost four of his five ships.
Returning home, he became one of the leading men of Elizabeth's little navy and fought most gallantly for his country.
22.
Sir Francis Drake
A greater and more famous man was Hawkins' cousin, Francis Drake.
He had been with Hawkins on his third voyage and had come to hate Spaniards most vigorously.
In 1577, he made a famous voyage around the world.
Steering through the Straits of Magellan, he plundered the Spanish towns on the western coasts of South America.
At one place, his sailors went on shore and found a man sound asleep.
Near him were four bars of silver.
We took the silver and left the man, wrote the old historian of the voyage.
Drake also captured vessels loaded with gold and silver and pearls.
Sailing northward, he repaired his ship, the Pelican, on the coast of California and returned home by the way of the Cape of Good Hope.
23, Sir Walter Raleigh.
Still another famous Englishman of Elizabeth's time was Walter Raleigh.
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