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The first oil well in the United States was drilled in 1859, by Edwin L. Drake, near Titusville, Pennsylvania, a town named for Jonathan Titus, who settled it in 1796 (and wanted to call it Edinburgh).
In 1595 Drake learned that a 2-million-peso gold shipment had just arrived in San Juan aboard a Spanish galleon.
Explore the bird-haunted lagoon at Drake’s Bay, a peaceful cove where Francis Drake claimed California for England in 1579, or hike your way through the Earthquake Trail, a path that follows the San Andreas Fault.
In 1588, the immensely powerful but badly led Armada set out to invade England, only to be beaten by Drake and a providential storm.
, the opening of the Drake Passage and the cooling of Antarctica) and phylogenetic history have played major roles in generating current patterns in diversity, and tend to emphasise regional (and especially longitudinal) differences therein (Qian and Ricklefs 2004; Ricklefs 2004).