Sebastián Vizcaíno
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Sebastián Vizcaíno was a Spanish soldier, entrepreneur, explorer, and diplomat whose varied roles took him to New Spain, the Baja California peninsula, the California coast and Asia.
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The clock made in 1581 by Hans de Evalo, which was presented to Tokugawa Ieyasu by Philip III of Spain through Sebastián Vizcaíno in 1611. An Important cultural property of Japan at Kunōzan Tōshō-gū, Shizuoka.
Thomas Cavendish
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Sir Thomas Cavendish was an English explorer and privateer known as "The Navigator" because he was the first to deliberately attempt to emulate Sir Francis Drake, raiding Spanish towns and ships in th
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…sailed as a merchant on a Manila galleon to the Spanish East Indies in 1586–1589. In 1587, he was on board the Santa Ana as one of the merchants when Thomas Cavendish captured it, robbing him and others of their personal cargoes of gold. In 1593, the disputed concession for pearl fishing on the western shores of the…
An engraving from Henry Holland's Herōologia Anglica (1620). Animum fortuna sequatur is Latin for "May fortune follow courage."
The North Pacific currents and winds used by both the Manila Galleon and Cavendish to get to Guam and the Philippines – the North Pacific Gyre