title: The Great Expedition: Sir Francis Drake on the Spanish Main 158586 (Raid)
author:  Angus Konstam 
description: The book is well documented and illustrated. A very enjoyable read for anyone wanting to add to their Pirate and Swashbuckling lore. <i>Richard Bliss, www.purplepawn.com</i>
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  Drake's Great Armada
  
  
    
    
  [INTRODUCTION  
    
  ](Drake%27s%20Great%20Armada_split_001.html#filepos1601)[DRAKE'S GREAT ARMADA  
    
  ](Drake%27s%20Great%20Armada_split_001.html#filepos7419)[NARRATIVE MAINLY BY
  CAPTAIN WALTER BIGGS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Drake's Great Armada
  
  
  ### Walter Biggs
  
  
  
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Blackmask Online.
  
  
  
  
  
  http://www.blackmask.com  
    
  
  * INTRODUCTION
  
  
  * DRAKE'S GREAT ARMADA
  
  
  * NARRATIVE MAINLY BY CAPTAIN WALTER BIGGS
  
  
  
  
  
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  INTRODUCTION
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Nearly five years elapsed between Drake's return from his Famous
  
  
  Voyage and the despatch of the formidable armament commemorated in the
  
  
  following pages. During the last of these years the march of events
  
  
  had been remarkably rapid. Gilbert, who had been empowered by
  
  
  Elizabeth, in the year of Frobisher's last expedition, to found
  
  
  colonies in America, had sailed for that purpose to Newfo