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Francis was born in Travistock, United Kingdom, to his parents Edmund and Mary Mylwaye. He died January 27, 1596 in Portobelo, Panama.

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There are no early records of his early life, but he was the eldest of  12 sons. During the Prayer Book Rebellion in 1549, the Drake family fled from Devonshire into Kent. He was the son of a tenant farmer on the estate of Lord Francis Russell, earl of Bedford. When he was 18, he finally went to sea, and by the 1560's he got command of his own ship.

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Only at the age of 23, Francis made his first journey to America, with his second cousin, Sir John Hawkins. Drake had the idea to attack many lands, he was successful with some, and wasn't successful with some. Drake was a very successful sailor.

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