biography
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Grenville, Sir Richard
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| lived:
| (c.1542–91)
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| biography:
| English naval commander, a cousin of Sir Walter Raleigh. He fought in Hungary and Ireland (1566–9), was knighted c.1577, and in 1585 commanded the seven ships carrying 100 English colonists to Roanoke Island, NC. In 1591, as commander of the Revenge, he fought alone against a large Spanish fleet off the Azores, dying of wounds on board a Spanish ship. |
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