In 1577, Queen Elizabeth secretly sent Francis Drake to raid Spain’s vast Pacific empire, beginning one of the boldest voyages in naval history. After storms, mutiny, shipwreck, and the loss of nearly ...

Papers from a conference held June 10-17, 1979, cosponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California at Los Angeles and the Sir Francis Drake Commission.

There were no Spanish warships along the Pacific Coast of Latin America in 1578. This was the exclusive domain of Spain, which had already plundered the empires of the Aztecs in 1521 and Incas in 1533 ...

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