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Sir Humphrey Gilbert   /sər hˈəmfri gˈɪlbərt/   Listen
Sir Humphrey Gilbert

noun
1.
English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583).  Synonyms: Gilbert, Humphrey Gilbert.






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"Sir Humphrey Gilbert" Quotes from Famous Books



... where he greatly distinguished himself. In the next year he began his career of adventure by going to France as a volunteer in aid of the Huguenots, serving thereafter in the Low Countries. The year 1579 saw him engaged in his first voyage of adventure in conjunction with his half-brother, Sir Humphrey Gilbert. Their object was to discover and settle lands in North America; but the expedition failed, chiefly owing to opposition by the Spaniards. The next year he was fighting against the rebels in Ireland; ...
— A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature • John W. Cousin

... in Ireland he made captive a certain Spanish grandee, Don Guzman, and sent him to Sir Richard Grenville to be held at ransom. And then, the Irish being for the time subdued, Amyas sailed with Sir Humphrey Gilbert on that ill-fated voyage to Newfoundland, and returned in rags, landing at Plymouth, where ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume V. • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

... 1578. The reasoning is not demonstrative. He may, if a regular combatant, have obtained a furlough to cross over, and see his family; or, from his English home, he may have paid a flying visit or visits to his brother, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, who commanded a regiment of the English auxiliaries. The dates are not incompatible even with a statement that he fought at the battle of Rimenant on August 1, 1578, though, had he been present on so famous an occasion, ...
— Sir Walter Ralegh - A Biography • William Stebbing

... Francis Drake, who, having performed numerous daring exploits in the West Indies, sailed round the world, and returned to England, his ship laden with the booty he had taken from the Spaniards; good Sir Humphrey Gilbert, who, after making many discoveries, sank with all his crew off the coast of Newfoundland; Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville, Sir John Hawkins, and a host ...
— How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves - Updated to 1900 • W.H.G. Kingston



Words linked to "Sir Humphrey Gilbert" :   gilbert, navigator



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