Sir Francis Drake: England's Greatest Hero 

Hey fellow viewers. If you've not read Mr. Brown's fiction, let me tell you . . . I just finished God-born, the first book. It's an immersive experience that richly brings to life a time far removed from human memory. I'm going on to the second book very soon. This would make an excellent gift for fans of the fantasy-fiction genre at the emergence of the Bronze Age.

Walter Raleigh next?

Good idea!

Great story. Again. Thanks.

@@DanDavisHistory An in-depth comparison of Cochrane and Smith? Not sure anyone's done that yet.

What's amazing to me is that they sailed past San Francisco Bay but their accounts don't mention it. So they either saw it and decided against going into it or they somehow missed it entirely. Maybe they were too far out to sea at that point or maybe it was foggy.

@@DanDavisHistory San Francisco Bay was discovered by a party traveling by land. The entry is not that obvious from the sea. E Clampus Vitus members played a prank on a fellow member and friend, planting a plaque to found showing that Drake's Bay was, indeed, Drake's Bay. The joke worked too well, and rather than embarrass their friend, a serious historian, the truth was kept secret until after he died. It was, as far as California's history is concerned, a hoax on scale similar to Piltdown. E Clampus Vitus was a Gold Rush-era humourous pastiche society founded to make fun of the Masons and other "secret" societies, whose members tended to make production of their secrets and membership. The motto is Credo quia absurdum. It is still going strong. There is a good discussion on WIkipedia for the interested.

@@DanDavisHistory the fog is definitely an issue. I've been on the Golden gate when it was so thick you could maybe see 100ft? To me thats the simplest answer, but who knows.

Nice one, but remember he was a bit of a scoundrel but those where different times and sometimes you need people like him!

@@DanDavisHistoryI can not imagine that they would sail with the fog that thick. The California coast is littered with rocky islands and they didn’t know the coast.

Sadly, I think the state of British history is in a lot of danger. Young people and especially the woke mob are severely tainting ture British history. Britains historical figures are being hijacked and being represented by nom-British actors like the way Queen Anne Boleyn, Queen Charlotte of Spain, King Richard the III etc. are being played by black people. Non-Europeans are denying us our history by rewriting it and claiming that European history is actually black history and all of it's achievements are the work of black ppl that white people stole from them. And now the most recent claim is that it was black and brown people that built Britain after WWii. Britain and Europe has welcomed In millions of migrants from war and poverty stricken countries yet this is how we are repayed. We welcome them to live in a country to live a quality of life that they would never have even dreamed of back in their homeland and then completely throw us under the bus.

The British have a proud history. The Ancient Rights of Englishmen, representative government, and limited government was a blessing to the world.

the people who lie about Our History have names and addresses.

​@@hyperboreanforeskin Well that escalated quickly. Don't civilize me bro!

@@jtjames79 just an observation

BBC has made many classic documentaries as good as these. It is good to have two excellent sources. 😅

Seriously? Read the comment above. Regards.

Not true, the BBC gave money to freelance historian legends like Ruth Goodman.

Attenborough ¿??

Thank you so much for watching and commenting, I'm delighted to hear of the passion you and your family have for history.

What a great mum you have!

Pirate Drake was wounded and lost The Battle Of San Juan in year 1595. He already had lost the Battle of The Counter Armada a few years before. Drake lost too and fled to Panama, wounded, where he also failed to win. Drake, now wounded and depressed after losing so many ships and men in the last 3 battles he was assigned to, and too ashamed to return to England as big loser, he died from the battle wounds and depression due big failures. Admiral Hemmings, another director of the Great Armada battle was killed in that battle too and was hurry up buried at sea, all mangled in front of San Juan. But the Brittish reported Hemmings died of a Tropical disease BEFORE the battle of San Juan.. And Drake also died from a TROPICAL DISEASE AFTER the battle. Big Lies. Both died from TROPICAL CANNONFIRE from the 70 cannons of El Morro Fortress in Puerto Rico, the biggest in the caribbean, even now. British Empire covered up that 2 of their 3 “Great admirals” of the Great Armada battle died in The Battle of San Juan in 1595. Tropical disease died was a big lie. Pirates dead by PR.. LOL..

@@emergencylowmaneuvering7350 no amount of your reinterpretation of the facts can alter them.

Fascinating! How did he treat you and others when he was at his home?

@@Kevin-bl6lg very reasonably, thanks for enquiring.

I read that book! A great story.

Ordered!

Marnie, I have a copy of that book among my sailing books. I treasure it. Very well written and valuable to know the details of Drake’s exploration of the Americas.

May your deceased husband rest in peace, I was looking for an opportunity to read a book and I decided to read his book! Good luck!

Thanks for noticing. These little things amuse me and I'm glad they do you too.

Ah you noticed too ;-)

Didn't know that about The Golden Hinde. I also live on Vancouver Island.

@@Carcajou72 I assume you know all about _Captain Van_ though?

It never happened. Drake stopped near San Francisco in 1579 on his way to cross the Pacific Ocean. Which by the way. It was already a highway for the maritime Spanish empire having discovered the Philippines (after Felipe II king of Spain) as early as 1525 by a monk, cosmographer, Urdaneta. Google it!

I'm with ya. Way before Cook & Vancouver eh?

Now isn't the best time in history to make such a film. Drake would magically become a black lesbian woman. 'For modern audiences'.

Yeah that's a great shout actually. 'Drake' (2025) Starring Christian Bale as Sir Francis Drake

Captain Cochraine was based in Master & Commander, check out his life story, that guy is a legend to our navy.

Na the papacy own Hollywood, sadly that will never happen...

Yes so many British historical figures deserve a movie. Like Napoleon getting a movie, well so should Nelson too! See Drake of England (1935) by Arthur Woods.

Slave trader

In Spain is consider no more than pirate and a plunderer who was made an admiral

Great Sailor and greatest Pirate in history

​@@celtibero599Where did Spain get all of the treasure to plunder?

@@NTL578 In a very similar way that all the nobles of the time exploited their servants for their personal benefit and enrichment, but with some small differences, such as that these "nobles" in America did not have lands nor were their titles eternal, but rather these they changed possession every few generations, although it also depended on the time period. It is also a very complex teme, I recomend you to investigate deeper about it, not only English sources, but also Spanish ones. No one can know about truce if only reeds about one side of the story.

spanish did not steal any gold from natives becouse natives were spanish in the new world,redneck. English killed all the native in northamerica and australia, Francis drake was a pirate and defeated by the spanish empire in Spain. The english armada 1589.

cap, the Drake line died out in the 18th century.

How could he have descendents? He had no children.

​@@philiptownsend4026he had 11 brothers many of whom probably had children, a niece/nephew are still descendants even if not directly.

his brother@@philiptownsend4026

his brother took over everything after he died.

When was disease like scurvy first discovered on the british navy was it im christopher columbus time also how about the penal trips to australia was it to tesmania new south wales

@@user-zq8js3cb6v The need to prevent scurvy was known knowledge in ancient times and Roman times and remained so by some Asians and Africans (Muslims) but was lost by Europeans.

SI DEBERIA CONTARSE EN LAS ESCUELAS LO LADRONES QUE FUERON.

drake and his English armada at a Coruna Spain 1589 defeated by a woma Maria Pita, even in panama defeated by the spanish empire and he died by disenteria like an animal.

@@juanmorales5133 Hi Juan, In what way is your comment relevant to my post? I merely stated a simple fact and having sailed yachts in and out of Plymouth Sound on many occasions I know a little bit about it. Drake carried on with his game because there was no point in rushing about like a headless chook. He couldn’t set off until the tide turned and he wanted to be following the Spanish fleet eastward rather than meeting them as they approached from the west.

hero???? PIRATE and defeaed by the spanish empire at panama, and the english armada in spain 1589. less fake english propaganda and lies

🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Nobody could have discovered it back then. It was frozen solid year round for centuries to come. If anyone could have gotten into the edges of northern Canada, from the east or the west, those white men would not be able to distinguish the water from the ice or the land. It was all 1 frozen solid block. Even now only modern double steel hulled icebreakers can get through for almost all of every summer, because there are still areas that are periodically frozen up in summer. The melting is proceeding, but slowly, so it hasn't changed all that much up there. Nuclear icebreakers are still preferred, because it would otherwise take too much time and fuel.

@@cattymajiv you are talking out your arse. The northwest passage was discovered in the mid 1800s officially. And I am an officer in the merchant navy and a guy I worked with showed me the pictures of him traveling through the northwest passage and it wasn't an ice breaker

The book does'nt claim that Drake found the northwest passage.It does claim Drake was looking for it in the area of the alaskan panhandle.If true,he was in the area almost 200 years earlier than the next european explorers.A facinating read indeed. @@bieituns

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much. I love Patrick O'Brian too.

The Drake statue is still there in Tavistock on a roundabout ,the postal address is 1 drake villas pl19 8da.

@@PaulFisher-uj9vbcool. Glad to hear the woke madness hasn’t land there yet.

@@subtropicalken1362 Oh, but it has, and to such an extent, it is the end of this country. This country, the UK, is finished, and will never be back. Today we have a society who all watched our own PM, (Johnston, the elitist, paid off Washington puppet), betray all of us, our own country, and our own grandparents, standing in Ukraine, and just outright lying, (like the most uneducated, clueless, excuse for a PM, any of us have ever seen, heard, or experienced before)! And not only that, no, but then lifting Zelenskiy's hand in the air, (while shouting out) "Slava Ukraini" - the official slogan of Stepan Bandera's OUN (order of Ukraine) that was made up from Ukrainian bourgeois nationalists, Banderites, and Nazi henchmen. Just how treacherous was that? It was 100%, outright treachery, against everything we've all been brought up believing in! Only 25-30 years ago, he'd of been removed for that. Yet unbelievably, we saw people in this country waving their really pathetic embarrassing Ukrainian flags, agreeing with him, even joining in, shouting out "Slava Ukraini"! Honestly, just how sick is that. I mean, really, are you kidding me? Just what kind of people are my fellow countrymen today? I don't recognise any of these people, they've clearly become just as uneducated as the Americas themselves. How embarrassing is that! I actually have become so disheartened that I really do want to see this country, my own country, completely annihilated today. And it has to be said, man, ain't they all making sure this happens? Best of luck with that.... I'm lucky, I have another home, and a long way away, and a yacht that I'm planning to sit in, (at a safe distance), beer in hand, watching this Island burn. Wipe this urban jungle of the worst excuses for British people, we've ever seen, or ever experienced before, from the face of this earth, and do the rest of the world a massive favour. It was members of the OUN, that took the most active part in the mass murder in Ukraine and Poland during October 1942, murdering millions of innocent people. They cheer for that? As, today, it just seems that none of these people know anything about any of this history, or know any of these facts, let alone understand just how treacherous that really was! Our own PM, knowingly, and purposely, betrayed our own grandparents, (many who fought and gave their lives defeating Nazism)! While our own PM, (and only on behalf of the criminal USA), raises a Nazi supporter's hand in the air, while shouting out "Slava Ukraini"? And nobody in this country said a word about it? Absolutely hilarious, man!! You really can kiss this country goodbye. These people we see supporting Ukraine, are only traitors (against every one of us, and our own country). Only, again, much too uneducated to ever understand why. And truth be told, it's actually more disturbing, that we could see anyone in this country, thinking that Russia have acted in any way, other than 100% the right way, 100% the ethical way, and a 100% the moral way, in absolutely everything they've done? Yet these people all claim Russia invaded Ukraine, and Russia are wrong? It's nothing but outright, in your face, Idiocy! It is not, and it has never been, a "Russian invasion of Ukraine". Seriously, only a propaganda believing sucker, and complete fool could think it was!. Obviously, we do hear that from our own lying government of paid off Washington puppets, yet they all obviously know very well, that it wasn't, and isn't, a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Yet barely any of these excises for Brits do! Many of them don't even know what we've all really seen happen in Ukraine, (since the illegal US coup of Ukraine in 2014). Many of them don't even know that it was the USA that caused the coup in Ukraine! And again, many of them have no idea, that the "illegal" Ukrainian government's, army, with their neo-Na*i (NATO trained thugs), have non-stop been trying to murder and wipe out all those innocent Eastern Ukrainians, for the last 9 years! And why? Because those former Eastern Ukrainians, speak Russian, and they didn't agree with the illegal coup committed against their legally elected government. So, the truth, and the undeniable reality is, they're supporting Ukraine trying to murder all those innocent former eastern Ukrainian people, and regardless if they think so or not, that is exactly what they're supporting. We then saw, on 14th May 2014, those Eastern Ukrainians hold a referendum on whether they should claim independence from Ukraine, (who only want to slaughter them all). And they then overwhelmingly voted to claim their own independence from Ukraine, (seeing the creation of both) the Donetsk People's Republic, and the Luhansk People's Republic. Then, in February 2022, both the Donetsk People's Republic, and the Luhansk People's Republic, saw Ukraine building up a military force of over 200,000 troops (with Nazi battalions included) on their borders, (who were well dug in, and heavily armed with modern western weapons targetting them). Ukraine were about to carry out a pre-planned full-frontal military assault against all those innocent people in Eastern Ukraine, to wipe them all out. Then both the Donetsk People's Republic, and the Luhansk People's Republic (REQUESTED) Russian military protection from Ukraine, and (REQUESTED) Russian military assistance against Ukraine's illegal government's army and their Nazi murdering thugs. -- To which Russia (QUITE RIGHTLY) agreed, while also recognising their own independence from Ukraine. Nobody has ever attempted to claim an invited, and requested military intervention into a country to protect innocent people from slaughter, as a military invasion by anyone, NOT EVER! Are these people we really are suffering from here, really this uneducated? We then saw, during 23-27 September 2022, the Donetsk People's Republic, and the Luhansk People's Republic, hold a referendum whether to join Russia, or to remain part of Ukraine, (who only want to slaughter them all). They then, again, overwhelmingly voted to join the Russian Federation, and were elated to finally do so. Yet people here believe the western narrative, who wrongly claim Russia invaded Ukraine? It's just complete and utter ignorance Putin made it very clear what Russia's aim was in Ukraine (before they entered), and honestly, he could not have made it any clearer, than he did. He told us all, very clearly, the aim for Russia was to protect those Eastern Ukrainian people (who have been subjected to bullying, torture, murder, and attempted genocide against them by the Kiev regime for the last eight years) - ABOUT TIME TOO, IS THE TRUTH!! For Russia to achieve that, they planned to carry out a full "demilitarization and denazification" of Ukraine, to bring to justice, all war criminals responsible for the bloody war crimes against civilians in Donbass. GOOD is the truth, well done Russia is the correct response! Because no matter where anyone's loyalty may lie?, we, the people, never support wrong, over right, but should always be willing to stand up and fight for right, over wrong! These people must unbelievably, think, that Russia protecting all those innocent people (at their own request), is a Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the wrong thing for Russia to do? So, they must have expected Russia to just ignore all those innocent eastern Ukrainian people's request for help and protection from Ukraine? And then just watch Ukraine murder them all? Think about it, that is exactly what they must have expected to see? And that, really is, only a Nazi mindset.

Why has nobody ever asked why this government is even involved in Ukraine in any capacity at all? It's claimed that this is all about Ukraine wanting to join the EU, right? Well, apparently we left the EU?, so why are we giving Ukraine a couple of billion £'s and all those weapons to help them join the EU, that we left? HOW BACKWARD IS THIS? Why? Two reasons... 1) The US demands we do this. They're certainly not doing this for a single one of us, that's for sure. This so-called propaganda against Russia and Putin, is only a remedial standard of propaganda that's all so backward in its entire context, that it shouldn't fool even the least educated members of our society!! Only looking around?, it's fooled so many? Get educated!! 2) Because this government never wanted to leave the EU, that's why, and that's because the EU is where many of their ill-gotten gains (they fill all their offshore accounts with) come from. What was the going rate to bribe an unelected British MEP for our powerful vote on various issues, like which of the poorer EU countries will receive extra financial support from the EU over the next coming financial year? A couple of million £'s, maybe? We reelected that same "remain" government, to lead us out of the EU, (while we all knew they never wanted to leave)? How insane was that? Honestly, the people in this country today, are, without question, easily the least educated society we've ever experienced before. Also, who were the two main countries that we were going to need good trading relations with, if we were going to succeed after leaving the EU? Both Russia and China, of course, you know, those same two countries this government has non-stop been demonising while destroying any chance of ever having any kind of relations with, ever! That makes such great sense, right? I can hear it already?..... "We have decided, for our own security, to rejoin the EU. We must all understand, that in these dangerous times, we're stronger together" (as they pack up, and send off another shipment of weapons to Ukraine) How long till we hear that?

I know I'll also be coming back to this video.

Thanks for watching!

Thank you so much! Yes it took a while to make that's for sure.

@@DanDavisHistory I've been fascinated by characters like Drake ever since playing Sid Meier's Pirates as a young kid. That age was full of complicated characters with a mix of motives and interests, with strong ethical codes despite being killers and thieves.. ahh, love it.

I loved that game too. Absolutely loved it.

@@DanDavisHistoryI should have known!...they don't make em like they used to 😭

They had the same hidden political agenda, and they succeed but the price they laid was huge, their dissapearance from history as a real persons was gone and they used alias to allow their successors to survive

FUN FACT: Francis himself had no offspring, but the descendants of his siblings live in Devon to this day. My grandmother's maiden name was Drake. My mum's line is supposedly descended from his younger brother, Edmund. The Drakes used to have a big import/export business. My mum was excited to read a newspaper story about a senior Devonshire policeman's daring activities in the 1970s. No big deal - we're ALL related if you go back far enough. Errol Flynn's "The Sea Hawk" was originally intended to be Drake's story, but the REAL story didn't fit a movie so a completely fictitious character was invented.

Francis drake is an alias, to hide his real name, just like with columbus, cabot,and so on Francis drake( francesc darragona i gurmea), columbus( joan colom i bertran) , escept cabot( sebastià/joan cabot) but all are Catalan Native speakers, against the imposition of the king of the spanish monarchy ( creation of castilian language)

Thank you so much. I will do my best.

I had no idea it was so dangerous there! But I very much doubt any of the sailors would have wanted to swim. Most of them probably couldn't even swim in the first place. The first hand accounts of the voyage don't mention dangerous waters in the bay, mostly they just talk about the local people and how the land was like England.

It’s not dangerous when there are no waves. But the water is cold and super sharky. There is some current, and the rip currents get bad when the waves are bigger. The rangers don’t want people in the water because there are no lifeguards and people underestimate how cold the water is. Undertow isn’t some sneaky thing. It is a rip current. All the water that gets pushed up on the beach by a wave has to go back to sea while more water is getting pushed up on the beach. That causes a channel of water headed out to sea. They are pretty easy to spot. If there are no waves, then they do not exist.

@@DanDavisHistoryLike any beach, it’s only dangerous when the swell is up. When it’s calm, they could have paddled right up to the beach.

@@duaneaikins4621 ahhh, & so kids & families, the weary traveller all have this knowledge I s'pose?! The signs are there for a reason. Good for you though, that perhaps you're a local....not all are & those warnings are of absolute importance

I built one of those too! Around 1971 I think.

Thank you for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed the film.

You should read the reports of spanish authorities in the Américas, ando read the thing Drake did on his expedition

@@vonartal381 How did the SPANISH treat the native people of the Americas ?

It's possible both stories have been spun. There's no way of knowing I guess, unless someone does an investigation of the original sources.

@@vonartal381 ahhh the hard done by Spanish, eh!? 😆😅

​​@@vonartal381well ,drake was fighting the Spanish wasn't he?

Not with that attitude you won't!

If I had founded that disaster of a country I would deny it.

@@cattymajiv America?

he and his family were actually Irish, the O Drake's.

​@@cattymajivtell me your insane without telling me your insane

​@@cattymajivsays the Hindi from the dirtiest smelliest place on earth

So you have Spanish cousins, since your great-great-grandfather left descendants in the Caribbean after another of his defeats with Spain, who emigrated to Cuba and became rich with sugar thanks to Charles III of Spain, later granting them a title of nobility in Madrid. In fact you are related to the family of a friend of mine "de la Cerda" Grandees of Spain. That helped in part to clean up your family's past of piracy an slavery.

I thought this documentary said Drake had no children? If so then how could he have descendants?

@@philiptownsend4026You really don’t have a sense of humor

@@philiptownsend4026 Well, it's easy, most of what this documentary tells is a lie, it is amateurish and politically interested, and what I answer to this commentator is true, it can be verified and Drake is a surname known today in Spain since it is related to several families, in addition to the oldest and noblest in Spain. In those times it was not enough to be someone's son, you had to be recognized by your father and a pirate who left some bastard abandoned in the Caribbean is not surprising, his surname was recognized by Spain. Furthermore, the one who claims to be a descendant of the pirate ignores that the pirate is not the only Drake who was born in the UK.

I would be personalbe ashamed with this name

Glad to hear it bro, thanks very much for watching.

Thank you very much indeed.

Drake was a pirate. It is amazing how British people glorify a pirate.

@@luissalazar6960 not English.

@@hetty43 Thanks

Thank you for watching.

The pressure on us these days is that we should be ashamed of our history. A great shame as we led the world in so many ways.

@@philiptownsend4026 - Sadly very true .. the amount of people who think history only started in the 18th century & that Great Britain, & its Empire, were at fault for everything bad that has happened in the last 300 years .. narrow, weak minded, brain washed sheep who believe the lies spread by the soulless, politically motivated, Anglo-Phobic media & press .. ALL those brave people, from so many different countries around the World, who sacrificed so much for our, supposed, freedom would be turning in their graves at what Britain has become & it’s certainly not Great anymore

just tell the kids to pull up there phone, go to YT - then start watching (and growing intellectually) 😊

Thank you. Much appreciated!