New Albion
New Albion appears in 693. Elizabeth I vs The Catholics: England’s Greatest Hero (Part 3) as the land Francis Drake claims for Elizabeth I after sailing north along the Pacific coast and returning south toward the Bay Area. The episode says Drake meets the Miwok, receives a feathered crown, and names the claim New Albion.
The source uses New Albion less as a settled colony than as a symbolic extension of the Golden Hind voyage. Drake has entered the Pacific, evaded Spanish expectations, and turned a raiding expedition into a claim of English global reach.
Connections
- Francis Drake, Golden Hind, Elizabeth I, and England - claimant, ship, ruler, and state.
- Miwok - Indigenous people encountered in the source’s account.
- Spain and Spanish Imperial Monopoly Vulnerability - strategic context for reaching the Pacific coast.