Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 22
Cannon, George Q. Excerpt from Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 22: November 1, 1887Rancis drake, one of the founders of English naval power, the eldest of twelve brothers, was the son of a most worthy sailor named Edmund Drake.Francis was born in Tavistock, in Devonshire, in the year 1545. Francis Russell, afterward Earl of Bedford, stood as his godfather, and Sir John Hawking, the celebrated naviga tor, defrayed the expenses of his education during the short period ...