28 magg 1586 anni - Sir Francis Drake attacks Saint Augustine, Florida

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This hand-engraved color map, or plan, by Baptista Boazio depicts Sir Francis Drake's attack on St. Augustine on May 28 and 29, 1586. Bozio, an Italian who worked in London from about 1585 to 1603, produced maps to illustrate accounts of English campaigns and expeditions. He prepared a series of maps marking Drake's route for Walter Bigges' work on Drake's expedition to the West Indies, first published in 1588 and followed by later editions. This map highlights an episode of Drake's Caribbean expedition, pictorially depicting how the English privateer (Corsican) captured and burned the fort and town of St. Augustine. The map includes an illustration of a mahi-mahi, also known as a sea gilt, which Boazio probably copied from the drawings of John White, governor of the colony of Raleigh, in what was then Virginia (now North Carolina). Boazio's map is one of the earliest engravings of any city or territory that is now part of the United States. There is another version of the map in the collections of the Library of Congress. Although they differ in coloration, the two maps are identical.

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