# Drake's Great Armada

Author: Bigges, Walter, -1586

Genre: Category: Adventure

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3334

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Drake%27s+Great+Armada+Bigges&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 Newfoundland (1583), and had perished at sea on his way homeward. Raleigh, who had succeeded to his half-brother's enterprises, had despatched his exploring expedition to 'Virginia,' under Amadas and Barlow, in 1584, and had followed it up in the next year (1585) by an actual colony. In April Sir Richard Greenvill...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/drake-s-great-armada-3334/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/drake-s-great-armada-3334/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/drake-s-great-armada-3334/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/drake-s-great-armada-3334/chapters/4/index.md)