Renaissance · South America · War
1572
Drake's First Caribbean Raid
1572
Francis Drake, commanding two small ships and a crew of seventy-three, attacked the Spanish mule trains carrying Peruvian silver across the Isthmus of Panama. Allied with runaway slaves called cimarrones, he climbed a tree and saw the Pacific Ocean and vowed, he later claimed, to sail an English ship on it.
In context
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Before and after in South America
Before and after in War
- Before: 1571: Russian Crimea Raid
- After: July 3, 1573: Siege of Haarlem Ends
Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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