27 - Sir Martin Frobisher meets a young Samuel de Champlain in Brittany

Frobisher leads a successful assault on El Leon, a key Spanish fort in Brittany, with the help of French troops among whom was a young Samuel de Champlain.

Reading time: 16 minutes

Sometimes, as the saying goes, facts are more fascinating than fiction. In this, the last chapter of Sir Martin Frobisher, historians could not write a better ending for the great Privateer’s life. Frobisher exited history on the same peninsula that Samuel de Champlain entered history.¹

In the fall of 1594, the English under comman…