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8 de mar. de 2024 · Sir Richard Grenville (born June 15, 1542—died September 1591) was a colourful and daring English naval commander who fought heroically, against overwhelming odds, in a celebrated encounter with a Spanish fleet off Flores Island in the Azores.
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Hace 12 horas · Los británicos (Richard Grenville, Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh, Martin Frobisher, John Hawkins, Humphrey Gilbert…) resultaron ser muy eficaces asaltando barcos en alta mar. Fueron unos piratas formidables. Incluso, con las patentes de corso otorgadas por la Corona, se convirtieron en unos corsarios infalibles.
18 de mar. de 2024 · The story is narrated by a middle-aged Honor Harris, who met Richard Grenville, ten years her senior, when she was eighteen. They fall in love, but when Honor suffers a riding accident and loses the use of her legs, she not only refuses to marry Richard, but even to see him again, not wanting to burden him with a crippled wife.
10 de mar. de 2024 · My favourite of these was Sir Richard Grenville, who, in Tennyson’s fine and historically accurate poem The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet fights an entire Spanish fleet to a standstill from his...
Hace 3 días · McKee, Stirland and several other authors have also named Roger Grenville, father of Richard Grenville of the Elizabethan-era Revenge, captain during the final battle, although the accuracy of the sourcing for this has been disputed by maritime archaeologist Peter Marsden.
10 de mar. de 2024 · My favourite of these was Sir Richard Grenville, who, in Tennyson’s fine and historically accurate poem The Ballad Of The Revenge fights an entire Spanish fleet to a standstill from his tiny ship and then, mortally wounded, declares: ‘“I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant man and true; ‘I have only done my duty as a man is bound to do:
18 de mar. de 2024 · Not until the summer of 1585, when Sir Richard Grenville with four small vessels and 60 men circumnavigated Pamlico Sound for the purpose of surveying Verrazzano’s Sea and to seek its connection to the Orient, was it learned from their Algonquian hosts that tributaries of the great estuary ended at their sources in the uplands.