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17 de jun. de 2020 · Richard Grenville vit le jour à Bideford, dans le Devon, en Angleterre, en 1542. Il était le fils de Roger Grenville, un membre de la noblesse locale. Les liens de Richard avec la mer commencèrent avec la mort de son père, noyé dans le tristement célèbre naufrage du Mary Rose , le navire amiral d' Henri VIII d'Angleterre (r. de 1509 à 1547).
Sir Richard Grenville. A naval commander and cousin of Walter Ralegh, Grenville was put in charge of Ralegh's plan to colonise north America, and took the first settlers to Roanoke. In 1591 he took command of the queen's ship the Revenge on a raiding expedition to the Azores, but died from wounds received fighting fifteen Spanish ships for ...
Page 48 - All the powder of the Revenge to the last barrel was now spent, all her pikes broken, forty of her best men slain, and the most part of the rest hurt. In the beginning of the fight she had but one hundred free from sickness, and fourscore and ten sick, laid in hold upon the ballast. Appears in 112 books from 1868-2007.
Richard Grenville, 1571. Sir Richard Grenville (* 6.Juni 1542 in Clifton House in Devonshire; † 10. September 1591 auf hoher See bei den Azoren) war ein englischer Seemann, Entdeckungsreisender und Soldat der Elisabethanischen Zeit, bekannt durch sein draufgängerisches „letztes Gefecht“ gegen die Spanier mit der Revenge
18 de dic. de 2020 · Collection. The reign of Elizabeth I of England (1558-1603 CE) witnessed an extraordinary spurt of exploration as tiny wooden ships boldly set sail from English shores to cross the world's oceans. Famous mariners like Francis Drake, Martin Frobisher and Walter Raleigh combined geographical curiosity with an insatiable thirst for the riches to ...
18 de jun. de 2020 · In 1585 CE, then, the adventurer Richard Grenville (1542-1591 CE) was given command of a small fleet which sailed to North America carrying a group of colonists. Elizabeth did not give any financial backing despite the flattery of Raleigh's name choice, but she did provide the expedition with the 160-ton ship Tyger .
Sir Richard Grenville (15 June 1542 – 10 September 1591) (alias Greynvile, Greeneville, Greenfield etc.) was an English Member of Parliament for Cornwall, Soldier, Sheriff of Cork '69-'70, Armed Merchant Fleet Owner, Privateer, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1576–77, Colonizer, and explorer. He took part in the early English attempts to settle the New World, and also participated in the fight ...
