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Sir Richard Grenville of the Revenge.

Title
Sir Richard Grenville of the Revenge.
Author
Rowse, A. L. (Alfred Leslie), 1903-1997
Publication
Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937.

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Description
365 p.
Subject
  • Grenville, Richard, Sir, 1542-1591
  • Grenville, Richard, Sir, 1541?-1591
  • Revenge (Galleon)
  • 1485-1603
  • Ship captains > Great Britain > Biography
  • Great Britain > History, Naval > Tudors, 1485-1603
  • Great Britain > History, Naval > Tudors, 1485-1603 > Biography
Genre/Form
  • Grenville, Richard.
  • Biographies
  • Naval history
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Preface -- The Grenvilles and Their Country -- The Marshal of Calais: From Grandfather to Grandson -- Early Adventures: Hungary and Ireland -- The Western Sea-Board -- The Great South-Sea Project: Grenville and Drake -- West Country Occupations: Bideford, The Castle of Comfort, Buckland -- Grenville as Sheriff: The Attack on the Catholics -- Cornish Piracy and Law-Breaking -- The Justice of the Peace -- Ralegh and Virginia -- The First Virginia Voyage -- The First English Colony in America: Virginia 1585-6 -- Later Virginia Voyages -- The Armada and the Defence of the West -- Grenville in Ireland 1588-90: The Plantation of Munster -- In the Azores -- The Last Fight of the Revenge -- Character and Myth -- Posterity: Epilogue -- Index.
LCCN
^^^38013224^
OCLC
  • 398675
  • SCSB-11334802
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library