Oh deer! Golden Hinde to miss river pageant
3 May 2012 1 Comment on Oh deer! Golden Hinde to miss river pageantThe original Golden Hinde, Francis Drake’s famous Elizabethan flagship, brought an immense fortune in looted silver and other treasures back from her epic voyage circumnavigating the world between 1577 and 1580. This vast haul, worth dozens of millions of pounds at today’s values, enabled voyage backer Queen Elizabeth I to pay off her entire foreign debt…
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