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19th April he attacked Cadiz, sank or burnt thirty- 

 three vessels and carried away four (see his despatch 

 given in Volume VI., page 440 of this edition). 

 He next captured the Castle of Sagres and held 

 Cape St. Vincent, and then making for the Azores 

 he captured a great Portuguese Carrack and returned 

 to England in the end of June. On the 12th July 

 1588 the English fleet put out to search for the 

 Spanish Armada, Drake being Vice-Admiral under 

 Lord Howard of Effingham, but a summer gale drove 

 them back to Plymouth. On the 19th of July the 

 Armada was sighted, and from that day to the 2nd 

 of August the fight with and pursuit of the Armada 

 was continued. On iSth April 1589 Drake put to 

 sea in command of an expedition to invade Spain 

 and Portugal, with Sir John Norreys in command 

 of the land forces. The account of this expedition 

 is given by Hakluyt (Volume VI., page 470). 

 From December 1590 to April 1591 Drake was 

 engaged in bringing the river Meavy to Plymouth 

 for the water supply of the town : when this was 

 done he set about building six corn-mills. In 1593 

 he represented Plymouth in Parliament. During 

 the winter of 1594 and spring of 1595 Drake was 

 preparing for what proved to be his last expedition 

 to the West Indies. On the 28th August the Ex- 

 pedition sailed, with Sir John Hawkins as Vice- 

 Admiral. It was however a failure. News of its 

 approach had reached the West Indies, and every- 

 where preparations had been made to receive it. 

 Hawkins died off Porto Rico on the i ith November: 

 the same evening a shot from one of the batteries 

 * strake the stoole from under ' Drake as he sat at 

 supper * but hurt him not,' though it killed Sir 

 Nicholas Clifford, the Comm'ander of the land forces. 

 On the 15 th January 1596 off Nombre de Dios 

 Drake * began to keepe his cabin and to complain of 

 a scowring or fluxe,' and on the 28th he died. He 



was buried a league from shore in a leaden coffin. 

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