22: Frobisher prepares to journey to the Arctic by privateering
Martin Frobisher is credited with the first expedition in search of the Northwest Passage. But the idea for the journey didn't come out of nowhere.
First, let’s get a myth out of the way first
North America witnessed its first Thanksgiving feast in 1621, or so the myth goes. “Pilgrims” who were in fact religious dissidents (not Anglican) landed in what would become Plymouth, Massachusetts, but being non-explorers, their food ran out. Their new theocratic se…