This English shipbuilder, merchant and navigator, whose innovative measures made the new English ships fast and highly maneuverable, was one of the main commanders of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588.
- Martin Hawkins
- John Hawkins
- Francis Hawkins
- William Blake
Answer
The correct answer is B) John Hawkins.
More General Knowledge questions
- This form of traditional Japanese theater, which aims to make the audience laugh, is characterised by brief plays, stock characters and exaggerated dialogue.
- This Dutch naval officer, who became a folk hero during the Eighty Years War between the Dutch republic and Spain, sailed out to capture the Spanish treasure fleet in 1628.
- The first screen kiss was seen in the short movie The Kiss, shown in what year?
- Rene Descartes, who is given credit for the invention of analytic geometry in 1637, may have been preceded in this regard by which French mathematician?
- A war, which was condemned by the United Nations, was fought in 1982 over a group of islands between which two countries?
- In chemistry, this term refers to two elements with the same atomic number, but different atomic weights.