USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -An expedition left Plymouth in September 1585 with Drake in command of twenty-one ships with 1, 800 soldiers under Christopher Carleill.

Detailed explanation-2: -English seaman Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, with five ships and 164 men on a mission to raid Spanish holdings on the Pacific coast of the New World and explore the Pacific Ocean.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sir Francis Drake, (born c. 1540–43, Devonshire, England-died January 28, 1596, at sea, off Puerto Bello, Panama), English admiral who circumnavigated the globe (1577–80) and was the most renowned seaman of the Elizabethan Age.

Detailed explanation-4: -After continuing north, hoping to find a route back across to the Atlantic, Drake sailed further up the west coast of America than any European ever had done, and landed in present-day California, claiming the land for England and naming it New Albion.