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home in Yorkshire to command the Channel Fleet, and, 
with a land force under Sir John Norris, to drive the 
Spaniards out of the fort of Crozon near Brest. During 
the siege Frobisher, while leading on his men, was 
mortally wounded ; but Crozon was taken by storm. 
The Admiral was taken on board the Vanguard, his 
flagship. The Queen sent him a letter in her own hand- 
writing. The wound need not have been mortal, but the 
surgeon who extracted the ball left the wadding behind, 
and the neglect was fatal. The great seaman and ex- 
plorer died on November 22nd, 1594. Queen Elizabeth, 
whose extraordinary insight into character was one great 
element in the success of her reign, put complete trust 
in Frobisher, and from 1589 she employed no other 
admiral during his lifetime. Frobisher had unswerving 
faith in his religion, and devoted loyalty to his Queen. 
In the dangers of storm and ice, as under the fire of his 
country's enemies, he ever combined presence of mind, 
forethought, and prudence, with heroic bravery and dash 
when the moment for action came. Among the Eliza- 
bethan worthies Sir Martin Frobisher justly takes his 
place in the first rank 1 . 
1 The following names were given by Frobisher to places discovered on 
his voyages : — 
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Beare's Sound. 17. Lok Island. 
Best's Bulwock. 18. Meta Incognita (name given by the 
Best's Cape. Queen). 
Best's Blessing. 19. Mistaken Strait (Hudson's Strait). 
Dyer's Sound. 20. Oxford Mount. 
Hall Island. 21. Queen Elizabeth's Foreland. 
Hall Sound. 22. Queen's Cape. 
Jackman's Sound. 23. Sussex (Countess of) Mine. 
Fenton's Fortune. 24. Sussex (Earl of) Island. 
Five Men's Sound. 25. Trumpet's Island. 
Jonas Mount. 26. Walsmgham Cape. 
Frobisher Strait. 27. Warwick Mount. 
Gabriel Islands. 28. Warwick (Countess of) Sound and 
Haidon's Nests. Island. 
Hatton Island. 29. Winter's Furnace. 
Leicester Island. 30. Yorke Sound (in Greenland). 
