History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . Sir Humphrey Gilbert Thomas Cavendish had been with Gren-ville in the voyage of 1585 to attempts inspired him with theambition of the age. In 1586 he, too, sailedthrough the Straits of Magellan, burningand plundering Spanish ships, rounded the. Sir Walter a portrait attributed to Zuccaro in the National Portrait Gallery, London. 1584] ENGLISH AND FRENCH n 1 Cape of Good Hope, and reached Plymouthin 1588, having been gone about two yearsand fifty days. These half-piratical
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . Sir Humphrey Gilbert Thomas Cavendish had been with Gren-ville in the voyage of 1585 to attempts inspired him with theambition of the age. In 1586 he, too, sailedthrough the Straits of Magellan, burningand plundering Spanish ships, rounded the. Sir Walter a portrait attributed to Zuccaro in the National Portrait Gallery, London. 1584] ENGLISH AND FRENCH n 1 Cape of Good Hope, and reached Plymouthin 1588, having been gone about two yearsand fifty days. These half-piratical attempts against Spainled continually into American waters, tillthe notion of forming a permanent outposthere as base for such adventures suggestedto Sir Humphrey Gilbert the plan, which hefailed to realize, of founding an Americansettlement. Gilbert visited our shores in1579, and again in 1583, but was lost onhis return from the latter voyage. In 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh sent two cap-tains, Amidas and Barlow, to inspect thecoast off what is now North reported so favorably that he began,next year, a colony on Roanoke was now a Protestant land, and nolonger heeded Spanish claims to the trans-atlantic continent, save so far as actualsettlements had been made. Sir Richard Grenville commanded thisexpedition, but was to r
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