The 16th century fortress features a series of underground tunnels and was bought in 2019, but is for sale again.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake are among ten house names being removed at Exeter School - GETTY A private school has ...

Burnham-On-Sea author Michael Turner has just released what is being described as ‘the biggest pictorial, topographical biography ever written’ on the life and voyages of the eminent 16th-century ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This portrait celebrates Sir Francis Drake’s epic achievement in sailing from South America to England by a Pacific ...

More than four centuries after the famous English privateer Sir Francis Drake raided the Spanish port of Cádiz, archaeologists have identified the remains of one of his victims. Lying beneath the mud ...

Papers from a conference held June 10-17, 1979, cosponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California at Los Angeles and the Sir Francis Drake Commission.

The 16th century island, made famous by the Elizabethan explorer , is located 600 yards off the coast of Plymouth, Devon, and ...

Sir Francis Drake was a pirate — according to the Spanish — an honorable mariner — according to the English — commanded by Elizabeth I of England to destroy the cities, fortresses, fields, farms, or ...

Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the ...

Researchers have recovered the wreck of the San Giorgio e Sant'Elmo Buonaventura, sunk during the British attack on the port of Cadiz. The wreck preserved food, American dyes and DNA from the crew's ...