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Francis Drake
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Noun1.Francis Drake - English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)Francis Drake - English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
Drake, Sir Francis Drake
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He described the home as "a little gem" where Frances Drake lived and entertained such well-known abolitionists as Frederick Douglass.
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Sir Frances Drake introduced pipe smoking to Britain in 1572 and it was recommended as a medicine for those suffering from toothache, falling fingernails, worms, halitosis, lockjaw - and cancer.
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