Who was Francis Drake? – Opinion
BY RORY EAVES
Francis Drake is a name that you will be all too familiar with, both on and off campus in Plymouth. From Halls of Residence and shopping centres to the statues on the Hoe, Drake is an integral part of Plymouth's history.
However if you're anything like me, then your knowledge of British history is most likely limited to whatever was covered while you were at secondary school, and this knowledge may be limited even further if you didn't take History to GCSE or A Level. I did both, however with the curriculum mainly centred around 20th century foreign history, such as Stalin's Russia, The American Civil Rights Movement, and Hitler's Germany, you would be forgiven if you weren't all too familiar with some of Plymouth's most famous historical faces. So who was Francis Dra...
