Drake's Great Expedition
1585–1586 · Event
With 25 ships Drake sacks Santo Domingo and Cartagena and burns St Augustine, then picks up the starving Roanoke colonists on the way home — open war with Spain in all but name.
On these timelines: The Spanish Armada, England, Master, Spain, Latin America
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