Recently revisited the seashore at Point Reyes during a record-breaking NorCal heat wave. That prompted me to revisit this post from last September, about Sir Francis Drake. (Yeah, I know – some stories never grow old – right?) As it so happens, it was exactly 440 years ago today that Drake claimed the ground previously belonging to the Miwok people for Merry Olde England, renaming it “New Albion.” And it was just a few years later that a grateful QE1 knighted our intrepid explorer for his avaricious exploits. Oh, and also? I guess paying off the entire British national debt with half his accumulated plunder didn’t hurt either. You can read all about it from This Day in History, here. Bonus queenly pictorial content is revisited below. Yer welcome.
