Thomas Cavendish

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title: Thomas Cavendish
text: Sir Thomas Cavendish was an English explorer and a privateer known as "The Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately tried to emulate Sir Francis Drake and raid the Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and return by circumnavigating the globe. Magellan's, Loaisa's, Drake's, and Loyola's expeditions had preceded Cavendish in circumnavigating the globe. His first trip and successful circumnavigation made him rich from captured Spanish gold, silk and treasure from the Pacific and the P
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description: English privateer
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date created: 2002-10-23T08:55:54Z
date modified: 2024-09-09T15:47:46Z
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