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MARTIN FROBISHER was an English privateer (a pirate licensed by the British Government), explorer, naval officer, and navigator. He sailed to Northwestern Africa, then looting French Ships in the English channel, then he went to find a Northwestern passage from Asia to America. He took three trips to Canada, he thought he found gold, which was actually fool’s gold. He found the “gold” on Baffin Island, which he claimed for England. He found Resolution Island and Frobisher Bay, which he claimed for England. Frobisher was the one who held the First Thanksgiving in Canada. A stone house he made was found in 1862 by Charles Francis Hall. He was one of the first people to go to Canada, but he failed to find a Northwest Passage and gold in the area. He died on November 22, 1594 because of wounds he got fighting the Spanish. He went on 3 voyages overall in search of a North Western Passage for a trade route to India and China. He landed in Northeastern Canada for all three voyages around Frobisher's Bay and Resolution Island. (1535-1594).
FRANCIS DRAKE was an explorer, slave trader, a privateer (a pirate working for a government/ a mercenary), and also a naval officer (admiral). He led the second voyage around the world from 1577 to 1580. He went with John Winter and Thomas Doughty. He went from Plymouth, England to Brazil and then through the perilous strait of Magellan. Then once at Tierra Del Fuego they went to Panama where he landed at Cano Island. He went to North America, crossed the Pacific Ocean, and sailed by Indonesia, through the Indian Ocean, past the cape of Good Hope, and then back to Plymouth. He participated in the slave trade between England and Spain. He died of fever. (1545-1596)
JOHN CABOT was an Italian-born English explorer and navigator. His real name is Giovanni Caboto. He moved to England in 1495. He sailed to Canada in 1497. Sebastian Cabot, one of his three sons, went on the voyage with him. Cabot went to the Canada coastline and he named most of the islands there. He was searching for a Northwest Passage from North America to Asia so it would be easier to go to the East Coast.. He was unsuccessful. Cabot’s expeditions were the first of Britain’s claims of Canada. He died in 1499. (1450-1499).