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Noun: Francis Drake
  1. English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
    - Drake, Sir Francis Drake

Type of: admiral, full admiral, navigator

Encyclopedia: Francis Drake, the Voyages of

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