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Grenville's fleet departed Plymouth on April 9, 1585, with five main ships: the Tiger ( Grenville's ), the Roebuck, the Red Lion, the Elizabeth, and the Dorothy.
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As April 1586 passed, there was no sign of Grenville's relief fleet.
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White was sent by Sir Walter Raleigh as Sir Richard Grenville's artist-illustrator on his first voyage to the New World ; he served as mapmaker and artist to the expedition, which encountered considerable difficulties and returned to England in 1586.
They were ordered to travel to Roanoke first to gather Grenville's men, but when they arrived on July 22, 1587, they found nothing except a skeleton that may have been the remains of one of the English garrison.
They were counting on these men to help with the new colony, but when they could find no one, they gave up hope of ever seeing Grenville's men alive.
Grenville's first act was to prosecute John Wilkes for publishing in The North Briton newspaper an article deriding King ' George III's speech made on 23 April 1763.
After delivering the British Academy's 1957 Raleigh Lecture on History about Sir Richard Grenville's place in English history he became a Fellow of the Academy ( FBA ) in 1958.
He and his troops distinguished themselves at the at the Battle of Lansdowne on 5 July 1643 where his men defeated Sir Beville Grenville's Pikemen and then at the Battle of Roundway Down on 13 July.
* Grenville's final battle on Revenge is commemorated in a poem by Alfred Tennyson (" The Revenge ").
* Grenville's final battle on Revenge is mentioned in a poem by Robert E. Howard ; (" Solomon Kane's Homecoming ") from Fanciful Tales ( 1936 ).
In 1806, on the formation of Lord Grenville's ministry " of all the talents ," Lord Ellenborough declined the offer of the office of Lord Chancellor, but accepted a seat in the cabinet.
He became a munificent patron of poets: Nashe dedicated his romance of Jack Willon to him and Gervase Markham his poem on Sir Richard Grenville's last fight.
* 1801: The same year he was in London making calculations for Lord Grenville's system of finance, and in 1808 he drew up the tables for Spencer Perceval's system of increasing the sinking fund by granting life annuities on government security.
Grenville's and 1585
Cavendish tobacco originated in the late 16th century, when Sir Thomas Cavendish, commanded a ship in Sir Richard Grenville's expedition to Virginia in 1585, and discovered that by dipping tobacco leaves in sugar it produced a milder and more mellow smoke.
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Grenville's role was seen as an attempt to keep someone closely associated with Pitt involved in the government, in order to prevent Pitt and his supporters actively opposing the government.
Canning left office with the death of Pitt ; he was not offered a place in Lord Grenville's administration.
Following Pitt's death in 1806, Grenville became the head of the " Ministry of All the Talents ", a coalition between Grenville's supporters, the Foxite Whigs, and the supporters of former Prime Minister Lord Sidmouth, with Grenville as First Lord of the Treasury and Fox as Foreign Secretary as joint leaders.
His departure from the post coincided with the end of George Grenville's term as Prime Minister.
In June 1569, soon after Grenville's sailing for England, Fitzmaurice camped outside the walls of Waterford and demanded that Grenville's wife and Lady St Leger be given over to him, along with all the English and all prisoners ; the citizens refused.
The latter feeling ultimately triumphed ; he condescended to accept in the dying days of Grenville's cabinet, and to retain through the " lutestring " administration of Lord Rockingham " pretty summer wear ," as Townshend styled it, " but it will never stand the winter " the highly paid position of paymaster-general, refusing to identify himself more closely with its fortunes as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
By the time Fox regained office in 1806 as member of Grenville's Ministry of All the Talents, Ponsonby's health was poor, with the result that his wife urgently pressed his claims for a peerage, arguing that it was merited by his opposition to the Regency Bill and the Union, and by his staunch support for the Foxite whigs at Westminster.
Grenville's and ships
Sir Richard Grenville's Gallant Defence of the RevengeThe Queen's ships built in England by Sir John Hawkins and his shipbuilders, Richard Chapman, Peter Pett and Mathew Baker from 1570 were of a " race-built " design.
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Nicknames such as " Lord Grenville's fat nephew ", Ph D ( Phat Duke ), and the " gros Marquis ", attested to his size and unpopularity.
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Pitt regarded Grenville's action as a betrayal and there was hostility between them for several years.
* Maskelyne is portrayed as " Dr. Vickery " in Kate Grenville's semi-historical novel The Lieutenant.
The colonists were desperately in need of supplies and Grenville's return was delayed.
Harriot recounts little to none of these accounts in his report to England and does not mention the disorderly state of the colony under either Grenville's or Lane's tenure, correctly assuming these facts would prevent Roanoke from gaining more settlers.
The first tax in Grenville's program to raise a revenue in America was the Sugar Act of 1764, which was a modification of the Molasses Act of 1733.
In 1749 ownership of the estate passed to Grenville's brother Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple | Richard.
As Britain was trying to recover from the costs of the Seven Years War and now in dire need of finances for the British army in the American colonies, Grenville's most immediate task was to restore the nation's finances.
One of the more prominent measures of Grenville's administration occurred in March 1765 when Grenville authored the Stamp Act, enacted in November of that year.
Grenville's own son, William Grenville, later served briefly as Prime Minister.
Lord Holland wrote to him expressing his own opinion and Grenville's, that there had been nothing like it since the days of Swift ( Memoir, i. 151 ).
Grenville's decade as Foreign Secretary was a dramatic one, seeing the Wars of the French Revolution.
Grenville's cousin William Windham served as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, and his younger brother, Thomas Grenville, served briefly as First Lord of the Admiralty.
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Within a week Bonaparte had resupplied his ships, and on 19 June his fleet departed for Alexandria in the direction of Crete, leaving 4, 000 men at Valletta under General Claude-Henri Vaubois to ensure French control of the islands.
Ultimately it was not clear that Jellicoe made any mistakes in his management of the fleet, nor departed from procedures which had been agreed upon by all concerned in advance.
King Andrew II of Hungary and, somewhat later, a fleet of crusaders from the region along the Lower Rhine finally departed for the Holy Land.
Zheng He's first voyage, which departed July 11, 1405, from Suzhou, consisted of a fleet of 317 ships ( other sources say 200 ships ) holding almost 28, 000 crewmen ( each ship housing up to 500 men ).
The deities having been satisfied by such a sacrifice, the winds started blowing and the warfaring fleet departed.
In 1820 a French fleet with an army departed from Toulon for the conquest of Algeria.
The Admirals Maarten Tromp, Michiel de Ruyter and Piet Heyn had their home base here and in 1688 during the Glorious Revolution William III of Orange's invasion fleet departed from the port.
Until the start of the 20th century Noordwijk had a small fleet of barges at its disposal, which departed from the beach as there was no harbour.
A relevant entry from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle confirms that the Danish fleet which regularly raided England departed in 1000.
Nelson sailed eastwards again and leaving six ships-of-the-line at Karlskrona, he arrived at Reval on 14 May to find that the ice had melted and the Russian fleet had departed for Kronstadt.
Forced to move early because of intelligence that the Dominion was on the verge of taking down the minefield, the Federation departed before a full force could be assembled and found themselves blocked and outnumbered by a Dominion-Cardassian fleet.
In the month of September, he departed from Bordeaux with a force of 1200 men, on three mains ships a small fleet of eight support craft.
Within weeks his fleet departed, having made no attempt to form a settlement, due to lack of supplies.
The fleet under the command of the 32 – 33-year old Cabral departed from Lisbon on 9 March 1500 at noon.
From Kilwa Kisiwani, the fleet departed to Malindi, which was reached on 2 August.
The fleet departed Anjadip and arrived in Calicut on 13 September.
In October 1990, BN departed from its Cascade Green, black and white scheme on its business car and locomotive fleet.
On 26 July coastal fleet under Colonel Anckarsvärd departed for Frederikshamn carrying 6 000 men with them who were together with 4 000 men strong unit advancing on land under General Carl Gustaf Armfeldt.
An Athenian fleet had been driven ashore at Pylos by a storm, and, at the instigation of Demosthenes, the Athenian soldiers fortified the peninsula, and a small force was left there when the fleet departed again.
In 1702 the Battle of Vigo Bay occurred, and in 1719, because a Spanish fleet which departed from Vigo attempted to invade Scotland in support of the Jacobites, the city was occupied for ten days by a British force.
On August 9, 1814 Hardy and his fleet departed Block Island for Stonington Harbor in part to lay claim to the Block Island food stores and livestock.
A fleet of five ships departed within the month for New England that included approximately 300 colonists, led by Francis Higginson.
This party initially prevailed, and a delegation was dispatched to Athens to make an offer of peace ; the Athenians, however, rejected this offer, and Lysander departed to the Aegean to take command of the fleet for the remainder of the war, which would be decided less than a year later by his total victory at Aegospotami.
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