ENGLISH EXPLORERS

Ana Cristina Restrepo

Jeisson Andrés Restrepo

Eng land a l so wanted new t rade rou tes and new lands .

The first of the english explorers was John Cabot

known as Giovanni Cabatto.

Francis Drake was one of the daring english sea

captains in explore america.

Sir Walter Raleigh was other english explorer who

was looking for sea path to Asia.

JOHN CAB OT (1450 – 1499)

He was an italian sea captain that sailed under the

english flag.

Cabot set out on his new world voyage in 1497

(five years after Columbus).

He landed in newfoundland (island of Canada), he

explored the area and returned to England.

Cabot and his crew were lost at sea on his second

voyage.

For the next 70 years England ignored the new

world until 1570s when the Reign of Elizabeth I

ordered begin exploring America again.

England hoped find gold and silver in the new world , but

all the mines were controlled by Spain. So, some daring

sea captains formed a plan to steal the gold.

The Spanish shipped their gold from America to Spain. The

bold English sea captains planned to seize the gold and the

ships; but if the plan failed, the captains and crews could be

hung as pirates.

These dangers did not stop many daring captains.

Drake was one of those daring English sea captains.

In 1577 he sailed to panama, he attacked the Spanish

settlements and sailed around south America.

Drake seized a Spanish treasure ship on the pacific side of

south America, and he escaped by sailing north to the coast

of California specifically in San Francisco bay area.

From there, he sailed west to the spice islands (Indonesia)

FRANCIS DRAKE (1540 –1596)

Drake’s voyage around the world

had taken three years.

He came home with a fortune in

gold, silver and spices.

Elizabeth I rewarded Drake by

making him knight; from the on, he

was Sir Francis Drake.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

He was not only an explorer, he was also an organizer of

colonies.

One of his colonies was Roanoke Island (now North Carolina)

-settlers were homesick and hungry

-drake take his population back to england because it was a

colony without food

Raleigh sent another group of settlers, but in three years the

colony had vanished

HENRY HUDSON(1565 -1611)

Henry Hudson was an English explorer and

navigator who explored parts of the Arctic Ocean and

northeastern North America. The Hudson River,

Hudson Strait, and Hudson Bay are named for

Hudson.