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Grenville, Sir Richard (1541–91) English naval commander and hero. He commanded the fleet that carried Sir Walter Raleighs colonists to Roanoke, Virginia, in 1585. His adventurous career ended when he was fatally wounded and his ship, Revenge, captured in a 15-hour battle off the Azores (1591). *Grenville, Sir Richard* (1542–91).
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 died at sea of his wounds on 2 September 1591. His son Bernard did not receive the administration of his estate until February 1593; there may have been some difficulty about verifying his death, or a dispute over his inheritance. Bernard died in 1636, and at the end of the nineteenth century there were four Cornish families ...
Sir Richard Grenville (15 June 1542 – 10 September 1591), also spelt Greynvile, Greeneville, and Greenfield, was an English privateer and explorer. Grenville was lord of the manors of Stowe, Cornwall and Bideford, Devon. He subsequently participated in the plantations of Ireland specifically the Munster plantations, the English colonisation ...
Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple. Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, KG, PC (26 September 1711 – 12 September 1779), [1] was a British politician. He is best known for his association with his brother-in-law William Pitt with whom he served in government during Britain's participation in the Seven Years War between 1756 and 1761.
Dec 1565) Sir Richard Grenville. Grenville was born at Clifton House and brought up at Buckland Abbey in Devon, England. He was resident when Theodoros Palaiologos, last descendant of the Byzantine emperors, retired to Clifton. He was a cousin of both Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake. At age 17, Grenville began law studies at the Inner ...
16 de jun. de 2020 · published on 16 June 2020. Download Full Size Image. A 20th century CE painting by Charles Dixon showing the battle in the Azores of 1591 CE when a Spanish fleet battled with the English galleon 'Revenge' captained by Sir Richard Grenville (1542-1591 CE). Grenville died of his wounds from the battle and the 'Revenge' was captured.
