Admiral Sir John Hawkins (also spelled Hawkyns) (1532 – 12 November 1595) was an English naval commander, naval administrator, privateer and slave trader. Hawkins pioneered, and …

Hawkins made voyages to the Canary Islands in the years leading up to 1561, and there he had learnt about the Atlantic slave trade – taking people from Guinea off the African coast and …

Feb 17, 2011 · By 1561, Hawkins had made several voyages to the Canary Islands and heard about the possibility of trading slaves between West Africa and the Spanish Caribbean …

John Hawkins is geboren in het jaar 1561 in Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire, England, zoon van Thomas William Hawkins en Joan Graye., ze kregen 1 kind. Hij is overleden in het jaar 1603 in …

1561: John Hawkins makes his first voyage to the West Indies 1562: John Hawkins hijacks Portuguese slave ship and trades the slaves in the Caribbean beginning England's …

Sir John Hawkins (born 1532, Plymouth, Devon, Eng.—died Nov. 12, 1595, at sea off Puerto Rico) was an English naval administrator and commander, one of the foremost seamen of …

Jul 2, 2020 · Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595 CE) was an Elizabethan mariner, merchant and naval administrator who has the inglorious (if not wholly accurate) record of being England 's first …

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Life of Sir John Hawkins, or Hawkyns, Elizabethan seacaptain, pirate, adventurer, and slaver.

Eventually, he and his crew set sail for the Caribbean via Guinea and Sierra Leone (where he inscribed the stone below) in 1561 (Geographical Journal, 139). On the way to the Caribbean, …