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11 giu 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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1 giorno fa · Ralph Lane was appointed governor of the colony, and Philip Amadas would serve as admiral, although the fleet commander Sir Richard Grenville led the overall mission. Civilian attendants included Joachim Gans , metallurgist, Thomas Harriot , a scientist, and John White, an artist.
2 giorni fa · Granville Earl of Bath. — This ancient Norman family came over with William the Conqueror. Richard de Grenville, who married Isabel, daughter of Walter Giffard Earl of Buckingham, was common ancestor of the Grenvilles of Devonshire and Cornwall, and the Grenvilles of Buckinghamshire.
3 giorni fa · Drake acted on the plan authored by Sir Richard Grenville, who in 1574 had received a royal patent for that purpose; just a year later this patent had been rescinded after Elizabeth I learned of Grenville's intentions against the Spanish.
1 lug 2024 · Carew relates, that, during the Cornish commotions in 1549, Sir Richard Grenville held this castle for awhile against the rebels; that having been induced to quit it, for the purpose of holding a parley with the besiegers, they intercepted his return, seized on the castle, sent him a prisoner to Launceston gaol, and plundered and ill ...
24 giu 2024 · SPX FLOW proudly boasts award-winning experts, Richard Cope, PhD and Richard Grenville, PhD as presenters at the conference. Dr. Grenville, NAMF’s President Emeritus, has developed groundbreaking research in the areas of blending and solids suspension, setting new standards in the field of industrial mixing.
1 lug 2024 · Not long after this, Sir Richard Grenville, having refused to take the chief command of the infantry under Lord Hopton as generalissimo, was committed to the prison at Launceston, Colonel Basset being then the governor: he was soon afterwards removed to the Mount .
