Editing Francis Drake (section)

==Defeats and death==
{{further|Drake's Assault on Panama}}
[[File:BurialOfDrakeTavistockMonument.jpg|thumb|Drake's burial at sea off [[Portobelo, Colón|Portobello]] (artistic licence - he was in fact buried in a coffin). Bronze plaque by [[Joseph Boehm]], 1883, base of Drake statue, Tavistock]]
Drake's seafaring career continued into his mid-fifties. In 1595, he [[Battle of Las Palmas|failed to conquer]] the port of [[Las Palmas]], and following a disastrous campaign against Spanish America, where he suffered a number of defeats, he unsuccessfully attacked San Juan de Puerto Rico, and lost the [[Battle of San Juan (1595)|Battle of San Juan]]. The Spanish gunners from [[El Morro Castle]] shot a cannonball through his stateroom on the expedition's flagship, but he survived.<ref name="Zarzeczny2018">{{cite book |last1=Zarzeczny |first1=Matthew D. |editor1-last=Seelye |editor1-first=James E. |editor2-last=Selby |editor2-first=Shawn |title=Shaping North America: From Exploration to the American Revolution [3 volumes] |volume=1 |year=2018 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1440836695 |page=323 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YgVnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA323}}</ref>

He and his second-in-command, [[Thomas Baskerville (general)|Thomas Baskerville]], captured and burned Nombre de Dios, and started an overland crossing of the isthmus to [[Drake's Assault on Panama|attack]] the city of [[Panama City|Panama]], but were repulsed by the well-entrenched Spaniards who had barricaded the road;<ref name="Andrews1972">{{cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=Kenneth R. |editor1-last=Andrews |editor1-first=Kenneth R. |title=The Last Voyage of Drake and Hawkins |year=1972 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0521010399 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TuIsmjb8WZMC&pg=PA183 |pages=183–187}}</ref> suffering heavy casualties, they gave up the attempt.<ref name="Marley1998">{{cite book |last1=Marley |first1=David |title=Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present |year=1998 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0874368376 |page=89 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rdvp3cGJUZoC&pg=PA89}}</ref> A few weeks later, on 28 January 1596, Drake died (aged about 56) of [[dysentery]], a common disease at the time, while anchored off the coast of [[Portobelo, Colón|Portobelo]] where some Spanish treasure ships had sought shelter.{{Sfn|Maynarde|1849}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbdk&fileName=d0302/rbdkd0302.db&recNum=607 |title=The Last Voyage of Sir Francis Drake |page=588 |website=loc.gov |access-date=7 July 2020 |archive-date=7 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707110508/https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbdk&fileName=d0302%2Frbdkd0302.db&recNum=607 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{sfn|Whitfield|2004|p=149}} Following his death, the English fleet withdrew defeated.<ref name="Kluge2021">{{cite book |last1=Kluge |first1=Sofie |title=Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age: The Poetics of History |year=2021 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1000450866 |page=138 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u_0-EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT138}}</ref>

Before dying, he asked to be dressed in his full armour. He was buried at sea in a sealed lead-lined coffin, near [[Portobelo, Colón|Portobelo]], a few miles off the coastline. It is supposed that his final resting place is near the wrecks of two British ships, ''Elizabeth'' and ''Delight'', scuttled in Portobelo Bay.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Friar |first1=Willie K. |title=In the Wake of Drake |journal=Panama Canal Review |date=Spring 1975 |page=8 |url=https://original-ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu/UF00097366/00009 |language=en}}</ref> Efforts by researchers and treasure hunters to discover the location of his remains are ongoing,<ref name="Zarzeczny2018" /> while divers continue to search the seabed for the coffin.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sir Francis Drake's body 'close to being found off Panama'|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15447632|work=BBC News|date=25 October 2011|access-date=9 October 2013|archive-date=14 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314071737/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15447632|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/panama/8847105/Sir-Francis-Drakes-final-fleet-discovered-off-the-coast-of-Panama.html|website=The Daily Telegraph|title=Sir Francis Drake's final fleet 'discovered off the coast of Panama'|last1=Henderson|first1=Barney|last2=Swaine|first2=Jon|date=24 October 2011|access-date=28 July 2017|archive-date=31 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731185545/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/panama/8847105/Sir-Francis-Drakes-final-fleet-discovered-off-the-coast-of-Panama.html|url-status=live}}</ref>