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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 ...
15 de jun. de 2020 · World History Encyclopedia, 15 Jun 2020. Web. 13 May 2024. A c. 1571 CE portrait of Sir Richard Grenville (1542-1591 CE), an Elizabethan sailor and adventurer. (National Portrait Gallery, London)
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.
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 ...
Battle of Flores, (30-31 August 1591). The battle between Spain and England off Flores Island in the Azores was a Spanish victory, showing the resurgence of Spain’s naval power after the debacle of the 1588 armada. For the English, the heroic fight put up by Richard Grenville ’s Revenge became a national legend, commemorated in Tennyson ...
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 ...
Grenville at once published a pamphlet entitled ‘Sir Richard Grenville's Single Defence against all aspersions (in the power or aim) of all malignant persons, and to satisfy the contrary,’ containing an autobiographical account of his life, services, and sufferings (reprinted in Lansdowne's ‘Works,’ i. 544-56).
