Sunday, September 16, 2018

Fact of the Day: Elizabethan California

While most of the middle to western part of the present-day United States belonged eventually to Spain as New Spain, present-day California was also claimed by Sir Francis Drake for Queen Elizabeth I of England, though no real control ever came of it.   
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10 comments:

  1. EmmySeptember 16, 2018 at 7:08 AM

    Everybody wants California:D

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  2. Pat HattSeptember 16, 2018 at 7:14 AM

    All wanted the sunshine and earth quakes and fires

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  3. Minoru SaitoSeptember 16, 2018 at 8:06 AM

    I had thought Holland had them. Thanks for your information.

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  4. HarlynnSeptember 16, 2018 at 9:36 AM

    He took over quite a rather large span of land! The Spanish were just as brutal as us back in the "finding America" days.

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  5. LoisSeptember 16, 2018 at 10:40 AM

    I did not know that!

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  6. Bob BushellSeptember 16, 2018 at 10:53 AM

    California for Frank Drake, nice one Frank.

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  7. ChristineSeptember 16, 2018 at 11:44 AM

    Interesting.

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  8. Mary KirklandSeptember 16, 2018 at 11:58 AM

    I didn't know that and I'm from California. lol

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  9. MarthaSeptember 16, 2018 at 2:16 PM

    Cool info

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  10. Su-sieee! MacSeptember 16, 2018 at 9:48 PM

    I suppose it was too far of a stretch for English colonists to settle in California. No easy way to get from England to there. Good.

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