Save Sir Francis Drake
Drake Achievements
Helped Defeat the Spanish Armada
saving England from Spanish invasion
Held Friendly Meetings with Coast Miwok at Drakes Bay
Raided Spanish Treasure along the South American and North American Pacific Coast
Without a Single Spanish Death (and only a very few Spanish injuries)
Raided Spanish Treasure along the South American and North American Pacific Coast
Without a Single Native American Death or Injury
Completed 9,600-Mile Voyage Without Stopping 
and Avoided Scurvy
Saved the Golden Hind from a Grounding in the Western Pacific
Overcame an Incipient Mutiny in the South Atlantic.
First Englishman to Traverse the Strait of Magellan
First European to Sail South of Terra del Fuego to Cape Horn, Discovering the Drake Passage
One of the First Persons to Hire a Freed Black Slave on an Equal Basis
"Juan Pascual, another Portuguese pilot, also met Diego while a prisoner on the Golden Hinde in the first half of April 1579. He later testified that he’d met two ‘negroes’ on Drake’s ship. One, clearly Diego, spoke Spanish and English, and ‘everyone said that the Englishman had brought him from England.’ The other was ‘seized at sea.’ Pascual also reported that one of these two men, though he could not recall which one, told him that they had ‘made a contract with Francis Drake,’ meaning they were being paid wages, just like the rest of the crew. This could only have been Diego, who had been with the ship from the outset"
First Person to Claim the Future United States for England
Drake's west coast claim predated Jamestown, Roanoke and Plymouth
First Protestant Church Service in the Future United States
This service was the first of the Church of England and the first use of the Book of Common Prayer in what would become the USA.
First Use of the English Language in the Future United States
Freed hundreds, perhaps 12,000, Black Spanish Slaves
Likely the first person to speak on behalf of "coloured persons" in the English Parliament
First European to See and Draw the Sonoma & Marin Coasts
First to draw European attention to the people and territory of northern California
In 1586, evacuated the failing Roanoke Colony
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