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Title: Sir Francis Drake would probably have wanted to intervene here ... Post by: Chris from Nailsea on May 29, 2024, 19:48:19 From the BBC: see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-69073257
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/fd03/live/ed4ee3d0-18f1-11ef-b5cc-cb8b8c4cef5a.jpg.webp) A Spanish warship, turning up at Great Yarmouth and firing cannon? Drake's drum would have been beating, games of bowls at Plymouth would have been curtailed, and there'd have been a rush up the English Channel to deal with the matter. ;D Title: Re: Sir Francis Drake would probably have wanted to intervene here ... Post by: infoman on May 30, 2024, 05:08:39 Working with a lot of Spanish Nationals,and they always referred to Sir Francis Drake as a pirate,
and Brits call him an explorer/adventurer. Title: Re: Sir Francis Drake would probably have wanted to intervene here ... Post by: Marlburian on May 30, 2024, 06:32:31 Many decades ago at school, the specialist subject was the (first) Elizabethan age and it was not appreciated when I suggested in an essay that Drake, Raleigh and others were pirates.
Title: Re: Sir Francis Drake would probably have wanted to intervene here ... Post by: TaplowGreen on May 30, 2024, 06:43:43 Working with a lot of Spanish Nationals,and they always referred to Sir Francis Drake as a pirate, and Brits call him an explorer/adventurer. I wonder why the Spanish didn't like him? :) They actually referred to him as "The Dragon" One of the very finest Devonians who now gazes out over Plymouth Sound from The Hoe. Title: Re: Sir Francis Drake would probably have wanted to intervene here ... Post by: Chris from Nailsea on May 30, 2024, 23:31:49 That's rather why I posted this topic here, TaplowGreen - both of us being Plymothians. ;D
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