This great man........awesome song, tremendous vocal performance, differently phrased, emphasis subtly modified...I, personally, and right this very moment, am going to fetch the Captain's log, and tear the pages out. I mean, we *are* on the road to nowhere now......
Richard Grenville (June 15, 1542 - September 10, 1591) Grenville was a soldier, owner of an armed merchant fleet, corsair, colonizer, and explorer. He took part in the first English attempts to establish colonies in the New World, and also participated in the fight against the Spanish Navy. He came from a famous family of Cornish sailors. As a young man, he went so far as to kill a man in a street fight, which revealed his great aggressiveness. He also fought against the Turks in Hungary. In 1574 he suggested sailing through the Strait of Magellan to go around the world, but Queen Elizabeth did not accept the idea. He moved to Munster, Ireland, and joined Humphrey Gilbert's plans, which were to populate the newly discovered places. It is not known that he participated in any voyage until 1585, when he took command of seven ships and 300 men, who set sail for Virginia. His cousin Walter Raleigh gave him this exploration. Grenville landed on Roanoke Island, currently North Carolina. On his return from the newly founded town, he faced a Spanish ship that came from Santo Domingo. He returned to Virginia in 1586 and found no one, since the settlers had been returned by Drake in a sorry state. Then, on his return, he captured a Spanish ship coming from the Azores. He then decided to travel to those islands and loot various towns. His cruelty is said to have been extreme. In 1588 his ships were in defense of England against the Invincible Army. After Philip II's failed attempt at invasion, he left with Raleigh to protect the coasts of Ireland. After being named vice-admiral, Queen Elizabeth sent him to attack the Spanish ships of the Azores islands in 1591, but the Spaniards were more than them and their ship HMS Revenge (in Spanish, "La Venganza"), was surrounded. During the Battle of Flores, on September 9, 1591, a fleet of fifty-five ships, commanded by Alonso de Bazán, defeated and put to flight another English fleet of twenty-two ships commanded by the English admiral Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, who was ambushed on Flores Island to attack and capture the Indian fleet. In that battle Grenville received a deadly arquebus wound.
Richard Grenville (June 15, 1542 - September 10, 1591) Grenville was a soldier, owner of an armed merchant fleet, corsair, colonizer, and explorer. He took part in the first English attempts to establish colonies in the New World, and also participated in the fight against the Spanish Navy. He came from a famous family of Cornish sailors. As a young man, he went so far as to kill a man in a street fight, which revealed his great aggressiveness. He also fought against the Turks in Hungary. In 1574 he suggested sailing through the Strait of Magellan to go around the world, but Queen Elizabeth did not accept the idea. He moved to Munster, Ireland, and joined Humphrey Gilbert's plans, which were to populate the newly discovered places. It is not known that he participated in any voyage until 1585, when he took command of seven ships and 300 men, who set sail for Virginia. His cousin Walter Raleigh gave him this exploration. Grenville landed on Roanoke Island, currently North Carolina. On his return from the newly founded town, he faced a Spanish ship that came from Santo Domingo. He returned to Virginia in 1586 and found no one, since the settlers had been returned by Drake in a sorry state. Then, on his return, he captured a Spanish ship coming from the Azores. He then decided to travel to those islands and loot various towns. His cruelty is said to have been extreme. In 1588 his ships were in defense of England against the Invincible Army. After Philip II's failed attempt at invasion, he left with Raleigh to protect the coasts of Ireland. After being named vice-admiral, Queen Elizabeth sent him to attack the Spanish ships of the Azores islands in 1591, but the Spaniards were more than them and their ship HMS Revenge (in Spanish, "La Venganza"), was surrounded. During the Battle of Flores, on September 9, 1591, a fleet of fifty-five ships, commanded by Alonso de Bazán, defeated and put to flight another English fleet of twenty-two ships commanded by the English admiral Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, who was ambushed on Flores Island to attack and capture the Indian fleet. In that battle Grenville received a deadly arquebus wound.
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Arguably his finest song (by the smallest of margins........I ear grumbling from Year o'..........), and a very fine, nuanced performance.
I absolutely love al Stewart and his amazingly beautiful and magical songs!
This great man........awesome song, tremendous vocal performance, differently phrased, emphasis subtly modified...I, personally, and right this very moment, am going to fetch the Captain's log, and tear the pages out. I mean, we *are* on the road to nowhere now......
Richard Grenville (June 15, 1542 - September 10, 1591)
Grenville was a soldier, owner of an armed merchant fleet, corsair, colonizer, and explorer. He took part in the first English attempts to establish colonies in the New World, and also participated in the fight against the Spanish Navy.
He came from a famous family of Cornish sailors. As a young man, he went so far as to kill a man in a street fight, which revealed his great aggressiveness. He also fought against the Turks in Hungary.
In 1574 he suggested sailing through the Strait of Magellan to go around the world, but Queen Elizabeth did not accept the idea.
He moved to Munster, Ireland, and joined Humphrey Gilbert's plans, which were to populate the newly discovered places. It is not known that he participated in any voyage until 1585, when he took command of seven ships and 300 men, who set sail for Virginia. His cousin Walter Raleigh gave him this exploration.
Grenville landed on Roanoke Island, currently North Carolina. On his return from the newly founded town, he faced a Spanish ship that came from Santo Domingo. He returned to Virginia in 1586 and found no one, since the settlers had been returned by Drake in a sorry state.
Then, on his return, he captured a Spanish ship coming from the Azores.
He then decided to travel to those islands and loot various towns. His cruelty is said to have been extreme. In 1588 his ships were in defense of England against the Invincible Army. After Philip II's failed attempt at invasion, he left with Raleigh to protect the coasts of Ireland.
After being named vice-admiral, Queen Elizabeth sent him to attack the Spanish ships of the Azores islands in 1591, but the Spaniards were more than them and their ship HMS Revenge (in Spanish, "La Venganza"), was surrounded.
During the Battle of Flores, on September 9, 1591, a fleet of fifty-five ships, commanded by Alonso de Bazán, defeated and put to flight another English fleet of twenty-two ships commanded by the English admiral Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, who was ambushed on Flores Island to attack and capture the Indian fleet. In that battle Grenville received a deadly arquebus wound.
Richard Grenville (June 15, 1542 - September 10, 1591)
Grenville was a soldier, owner of an armed merchant fleet, corsair, colonizer, and explorer. He took part in the first English attempts to establish colonies in the New World, and also participated in the fight against the Spanish Navy.
He came from a famous family of Cornish sailors. As a young man, he went so far as to kill a man in a street fight, which revealed his great aggressiveness. He also fought against the Turks in Hungary.
In 1574 he suggested sailing through the Strait of Magellan to go around the world, but Queen Elizabeth did not accept the idea.
He moved to Munster, Ireland, and joined Humphrey Gilbert's plans, which were to populate the newly discovered places. It is not known that he participated in any voyage until 1585, when he took command of seven ships and 300 men, who set sail for Virginia. His cousin Walter Raleigh gave him this exploration.
Grenville landed on Roanoke Island, currently North Carolina. On his return from the newly founded town, he faced a Spanish ship that came from Santo Domingo. He returned to Virginia in 1586 and found no one, since the settlers had been returned by Drake in a sorry state.
Then, on his return, he captured a Spanish ship coming from the Azores.
He then decided to travel to those islands and loot various towns. His cruelty is said to have been extreme. In 1588 his ships were in defense of England against the Invincible Army. After Philip II's failed attempt at invasion, he left with Raleigh to protect the coasts of Ireland.
After being named vice-admiral, Queen Elizabeth sent him to attack the Spanish ships of the Azores islands in 1591, but the Spaniards were more than them and their ship HMS Revenge (in Spanish, "La Venganza"), was surrounded.
During the Battle of Flores, on September 9, 1591, a fleet of fifty-five ships, commanded by Alonso de Bazán, defeated and put to flight another English fleet of twenty-two ships commanded by the English admiral Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, who was ambushed on Flores Island to attack and capture the Indian fleet. In that battle Grenville received a deadly arquebus wound.
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