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24 de oct. de 2016 · Richard Grenville and the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Andy Gabriel-Powell. McFarland, Oct 24, 2016 - History - 192 pages. England's ill-fated first attempt to colonize America at Roanoke Island in 1587, more than 30 years before the Pilgrims set sail, has been the focus of numerous studies, fictional retellings and media interpretations.
22 de mar. de 2024 · Search for: 'Sir Richard Grenville' in Oxford Reference ». (1542–91),English landowner whose name will always be associated with the last fight of the Revenge. He was born at Buckland Abbey, Devon, and was Sir Walter Raleigh's cousin. Little is known of his early life except that he killed a man in a duel, was admitted a student of the Inner ...
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
Richard Grenville. Sir Richard Grenville (1542 – 1591) was an English sailor, sea captain and explorer. He took part in the early English attempts to settle the New World. He was in the fight against the Spanish Armada. He died in 1591 at the Battle of Flores, fighting against overwhelming odds, and refusing to surrender his ship, the Revenge ...
Richard Grenville (ur. 15 czerwca 1542 w Buckland Abbey lub Bideford, zm. 10 września 1591 koło Flores) – angielski korsarz i odkrywca. Urodzony w rodzinie szlacheckiej, kuzyn Waltera Raleigha. Grenville podjął karierę wojskową i uczestniczył w wojnie austriacko-tureckiej na Węgrzech (1566–1568), następnie służył w Irlandii.
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.
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 ...