He burnt and plundered the Spanish settlements along the coast, captured some Spanish ships, and took by boarding the galleon St.Anna, with 122,000 Spanish dollars on board.

He then sailed across the Pacific to the Ladrone Islands, and returned home through the Straits of Java and the Indian Archipelago by the Cape of Good Hope, and reached England after an absence of two years and a month.
The sacred and invincible Armada was now ready, Philip II.

was determined to put down those English adventurers who had swept the coasts of Spain and plundered his galleons on the high seas.

The English sailors knew that the sword of Philip was forged in the gold mines of South America, and that the only way to defend their country was to intercept the plunder on its voyage home to Spain.

But the sailors and their captains--Drake, Hawkins, Frobisher, Howard, Grenville, Raleigh, and the rest--could not altogether interrupt the enterprise of the King of Spain.