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11 de abr. de 2024 · Richard Grenville-Temple, 1st Earl Temple (born Sept. 26, 1711, London, Eng.—died Sept. 12, 1779, Stowe, near Buckingham, Buckinghamshire) was an English statesman, the brother-in-law of William Pitt, under whom he served as the first lord of the Admiralty.
The siege of Plymouth took place during the First English Civil War, when Royalist forces besieged Plymouth, in Devon, held by a Parliamentary garrison. With the exception of a brief interlude in July 1644, the town was isolated for most of the period from August 1642 to January 1646; however, control of the sea meant the garrison could easily ...
Review. 1938] rowse : sir richard grenville oe the revenge 361. of " papal alum " and the efforts of the French government to defeat. the papal monopoly (p. 200) is a strange story. It is strange to read. (p. 217) that the medical faculty " abandoned surgery to barbers. because they thought that manual labour was dishonouring to the profession."
Sir Richard Grenville (avec diverses transcriptions, parmi lesquelles Greynvile, Greeneville, Greenfield, etc. ; prononcer à la française [grɑ̃vil], le nom étant d'origine anglo-normande), né le 6 juin 1542 au château de Clifton House, dans le Devon, dans le sud-ouest de l' Angleterre – mort au combat le 10 septembre 1591 était un ...
GRENVILLE (or GREYNVILE), SIR RICHARD (c. 1541-1591), British naval commander, was born of an old Cornish family about 1541. His grandfather, Sir Richard, had been marshal of Calais in the time of Henry VIII., and his father commanded and was lost in the "Mary Rose" in 1545.
Revenge was on such a patrol in the summer of 1591 under the command of Sir Richard Grenville. The Spanish, meanwhile, had dispatched a fleet of some 55 ships under Alonso de Bazán, having under his orders Generals Martín de Bertendona and Marcos de Aramburu. Bazán learned that the English were patrolling around the northern Azores.
Sir Richard was born in Kilkhampton, north Cornwall, in 1600. He was the younger brother of Sir Bevil Grenville, another famous army leader. At the age of 20, Sir Richard went abroad to be a soldier. After returning, he became Member of Parliament for Fowey in 1628. In the same year, he married Mary Howard and they later had two children ...
