may 1, 1572 - Failed raid in the West Indies

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- Drake plans raids on Spanish Indies
- Accompanied by his two brothers, John and Joseph, Drake assembled a fleet of two light ships, plus three small pinnaces
- Sails through the Canary Islands then straight across to Dominica in the West Indies
- Meets his partner, English pirate James Raunse in a place on the isthmus called Port Pheasant
- Establish a fort
- By July, read to attack Nombre de Dios, where treasure and goods were loaded for shipment to Spain
- Raid failed
- Raunse withdrew from the partnership
- Drake sailds to Cartagena and spent the new few months in desultory attacks on small vessels and settlements between there and the isthmus
- During this time, his brother John was able to conclude an alliance with local cimarrones (who befriended anyone who was an enemy of the Spanish settlers)
- By brothers killed (John = shot and Joseph = disease)

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