{"date":"December 28","id":"12-28","intro":["Drake with a fleet of twenty-five ships and twenty-three hundred men sets sail to plunder and lay waste Spain’s treasure hoards in the New World. Gold and silver bar, nuggets and jewels awaited the bold adventurers."],"minutes":25,"readings":[{"author":"Walter Bigges","end":240,"start":229,"volume":33,"work":"Drake’s Great Armada"}],"slug":"december-28","status":"proofread","title":"Ho! for the Spanish Main!","url":"/harvard-classics/december-28/","words":5001}