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GRENVILLE or GREYNVILE, Sir RICHARD (1541?–1591), naval commander, of an old Cornish family, whose name has been spelt in a countless number of different ways, was the son of Sir Roger Greynvile, who commanded and was lost in the Mary Rose in 1545, and grandson of Sir Richard Greynvile (d. 1550), marshal of Calais under Henry VIII.
Richard Grenville. Sir Richard Grenville (* 6 juni 1542 in Clifton House in Devonshire; † 10 september 1591, nabij Flores, Azoren) was een Engelse zeeman, ontdekkingsreiziger en militair tijdens de regering van Elizabeth I van Engeland .
21 de feb. de 2013 · Sir Richard Grenville (1542-1591), English sea captain and explorer, became a legendary figure in the resistance to the Spanish Armada, dying as a result of wounds sustained at the helm of the galleon Revenge in the Battle of Flores: a fight in which he struggled against overwhelming odds.
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 du surnom baltazar , né le 6 juin 1493 au château de Clifton House, dans le Devon, dans le sud-ouest de l'Angleterre – mort au combat le 10 septembre 1591 était un officier, navigateur et explorateur anglais de l'Ère élisabéthaine.
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.
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).
