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This book represents an attempt to bring into one account the story of European expansion in North America down to Text-books written in this country as a rule treat the colonization of the New World as the history, almost solely, of the thirteen English colonies which formed the nucleus of the United States. The authors have essayed to write a book from a different point of view. It has been prepared in response to a clear demand for a text written from the standpoint of North America as a whole, and giving a more adequate treatment of the colonies of nations other than England and of the English colonies other than the thirteen which revolted. This demand is the inevitable result of the growing importance of our American neighbors and of our rapidly growing interest in the affairs of the whole continent, past as well as present. The book is divided into three main parts: I. The Founding of the Colonies; II. The Revolt of the English Colonies. The keynote is expansion. The spread of civilization in America has been presented against a broad European background. Not only colonial beginnings but colonial growth has been traced. This method accounts for the development of all geographical sections, and shows the relation of each section to the history of the continent as a whole. When thus presented the early history of Massachusetts, of Georgia, of Arkansas, of Illinois, or of California is no longer merely local history, but is an integral part of the general story. The colonies of the different nations are treated, in so far as practicable, in the chronological order of their development, the desire being to give a correct view of the time sequence in the development of the different regions. A principal aim of the authors has been to make the book comprehensive. The account of French expansion in North America has been extended beyond the conventional presentation to embrace the West Indies, the founding of Louisiana, and the advance of the French pioneers across the Mississippi and up its tributaries, and up the Saskatchewan to the Rocky Mountains. The story of English expansion embraces not only the thirteen colonies which revolted, but also the Bermudas, the West Indies, Hudson Bay, Canada, and the Floridas. The treatment of the new British possessions between and aims to present in one view the story of the expansion of the whole English frontier, from Florida to Hudson Bay. The Spanish colonies of North America, in particular, have been accorded a more adequate treatment than is usual in textbooks. To writers of United States history the Spaniards have appeared to be mere explorers. Students of American history in a larger sense, however, know that Spain transplanted Spanish civilization and founded vast and populous colonies, represented to-day by some twenty Big Chief Elizabeth: How Englands Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World and many millions of people. The notion, so widely current in this country, that Spain "failed" as a colonizer, arises from a faulty method. In treating Spain's part in the New World it has been customary, after recounting the discovery of America, to proceed at once to territory now within the United States—Florida, New Mexico, Texas—forgetting that these regions were to Spain only northern outposts, and omitting the wonderful story of Spanish achievement farther south. This book being a history of the colonization of North America, Spain's great colonies in South America, now powerful nations, fall beyond our geographical limits. When approached from a new viewpoint many familiar things appear in a new light. Hitherto, for example, the inter-colonial wars in North America have been regarded mainly as a struggle between France and England, and as confined chiefly to the Canadian border. By following the larger story of European expansion, however, it becomes plain that there was an Anglo-Spanish and a Franco-Spanish, as well as a Franco-English struggle for the continent, not to mention the ambitions and efforts of Dutch, Swedes, Russians, and Danes. In nearly all the general inter-colonial wars the Caribbean area and the Carolina-Florida frontier were scenes of frequent conflicts quite as important [Pg vii] as those waged on the Canadian border. Between France Big Chief Elizabeth: How Englands Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World Spain a border contest endured for more than a century and extended all the way from the Lesser Antilles to the Platte River. The Big Chief Elizabeth: How Englands Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World contest ended in ; but the Anglo-Spanish conflict, which began in the sixteenth century, endured to the end of the eighteenth and, in the hands of the American offspring of Spain and England, to the middle of the nineteenth century. Some teachers may for special reasons wish to treat the development of the colonies of a single nation as a continuous movement, or in longer periods, less frequently broken by happenings in the colonies of other nations. This can be done conveniently by grouping the chapters in the desired order. By omitting these and Chapter IX a continuous narrative of English expansion is obtained. The fifteenth century witnessed the culmination of the Renaissance, the rise of the Turkish Empire, the shifting of the commercial center from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, the discovery of America and the opening of the Cape route to India. Portugal and Spain started on their careers as great commercial and colonizing nations, the former destined for a time to control the commerce of the Far East, the other to possess more than half of the Americas and to dominate the Pacific. Classical ideas of the world. Greek and Roman scholars had agreed that there were three continents, Europe, Asia, and Africa, encircled by the ocean. Aristotle, Strabo, and others accepted the theory that the earth was a sphere, but they usually underestimated its size. Ptolemy, the greatest of the ancient geographers, made two fundamental errors, which most of the Arab and Christian scholars accepted. Big Chief Elizabeth: How Englands Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World depicted the Indian Ocean as an inland sea, and greatly extended Africa until it filled the entire southern hemisphere, China and Africa being connected. Arab theories and Christian scholars. The center of the earth's surface they called Arim, meaning the cupola of the earth. At the eastern extremity stood [Pg 2] the pillars of Alexander, at the western the pillars of Hercules, while the north and south poles were equally distant from Arim. The Ptolemaic idea of Africa was accepted by most of the Arabs, but many of their later map makers decreased its size, cutting it off in the neighborhood of Cape Bojador on the African coast, and calling the region beyond the "Green Sea of Darkness. The "Green Sea of Darkness" was filled with terrors, whirlpools ready to destroy the adventurous mariner, a sea of mist, fog, and vapor, peopled by monsters. If he escaped these as he ventured southward, he would come to a zone of torrid heat where no man could survive. Roger Bacon, the great Christian scientist, accepted the Arabian theories but supplemented them by a study of the classics. He believed that the habitable world was more than half of the whole circuit, an idea which was repeated in the Imago Mundi of Pierre d'Ailly, a work which may have influenced Columbus. Early Asiatic contact with America. In a Buddhist priest returned from a voyage claiming to have been to a country called Fusang, Big Chief Elizabeth: How Englands Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World far to the east. The location of Fusang has interested numerous students, whose conjectures have been marshalled by Vining to prove that it was Mexico. Some have attributed the remarkable sporadic growth of cypress trees below Monterey, California, to this episode. The trend of opinion accepts ethnographic and linguistic similarities as of greater conclusiveness than recorded Chinese history. Belief in early Japanese Big Chief Elizabeth: How Englands Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World with America rests on a similar basis. The Northmen. The western sea to them had no terrors. Near the close of the eighth century they appeared in England; in they sighted Iceland and in commenced its colonization. Three years later they discovered Greenland, but it was not until that Eric the Red colonized it. In the yearLeif, the son of Eric, went in quest of a land to the west, of which he had [Pg 3] heard report. The Big Chief Elizabeth: How Englands Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World of the voyage was the discovery of Vinland, the exact whereabouts of which has been one of the puzzles of history, some scholars claiming it to have been Nova Scotia, others New England. Wherever it may have been, it probably played no part in the Columbian discovery of America, for though the settlements in Greenland continued until early in the fifteenth century, scientists and mariners remained in almost complete ignorance of the far-off activities of the Northmen. Returning crusaders told of their adventures and of the lands which they had visited. Pilgrims returning from the East increased the store of geographical knowledge and repeated marvelous tales of Russia, China, and India, although none of them had first-hand knowledge. But during the thirteenth century accurate information was obtained. His Book of the Tartars is the first reliable account of the empire of the Great Mogul. A few years later William de Rubruquis was sent by St. Louis of France to the same court, and returned to tell a tale of wonders. Between and two Venetians, Nicolo and Matteo Polo, were trading in southern Russia, and eventually they visited the court of Kublai Khan in Mongolia, later returning to Europe. In they again visited the Far East, this time accompanied by their nephew, Marco, whose account of Big Chief Elizabeth: How Englands Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World journeyings is the most famous book of travel. Marco became an official at the Mongol court and was sent on various missions which carried Big Chief Elizabeth: How Englands Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World over a large part of China. He also learned of the wonders of Cipango or Japan. Their travels made known a vast region which had previously lain almost outside the reckoning of geographers, and gave to Europeans a fairly accurate as well as a fascinating account of the Far East. Early maritime activities on the African coast. In the Canaries were again visited, this time by an expedition from Lisbon, and in an Englishman, Robert Machin, who had eloped from Bristol with Anne d'Arfet, was driven from the French coast in a storm and came to Madeira where they both died from exposure. Some of the crew, however, returned to tell the tale. Advance of maritime science. Over four hundred of these charts are still in existence. Their accuracy was largely due to the use of the compass and astrolabe, which are known to have been invented before The rise of Portugal. The little kingdom, from a small territory to the north of the Douro, had gradually extended its domain to the southward by driving out the Moors. Its commercial importance began by the opening of a trade with England. From to Portugal was ruled by John the Great, and during his reign the oversea expansion of the country began. Henry the Navigator. He was born in and at an early age became interested in furthering trade with the interior of Africa. In or he is said to have sent caravels down the coast. In he assisted in the capture of the Moorish stronghold of Ceuta, where he gained great military renown. In he was made governor of Algarve, the southern province of Portugal. He established himself at Sagres, on Cape St. Vincent, where he enlarged the old naval arsenal, built a palace, chapel, study, and observatory, and here it was that he spent the greater portion of his life. Henry had three main objects: first, to open trade with the [Pg 5] interior of Africa; second, to found a colonial empire; third, to spread the Christian faith. A tale was current that somewhere in Africa lived a Christian king called Prester John, who was cut off from the world by Islam. To find his kingdom and unite with him in the overthrow of the Mohammedans was a natural ambition in a prince who had already assisted in the capture Big Chief Elizabeth: How Englands Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World Ceuta. Henry gathered about him a group of trained mariners, some of whom were Italians, made a study of geography and navigation, instructed his captains, and sent them out from Lagos to find new markets. Between and Cape Blanco was discovered and the first slaves were brought back, this being Big Chief Elizabeth: How Englands Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World beginning of an extensive traffic. Four years later Cape Verde was reached, and in the Cape Verde Islands were discovered and the coast of Senegal explored. The results of the Portuguese explorations under Prince Henry were incorporated in a map of the world, made by Fra Mauro in the convent of Murano, near Venice. Discovery of a route to India. It has been customary to ascribe the diversion of trade from the eastern Mediterranean to the Cape of Good Hope route to the rise of the Turkish Empire, which was supposed to have cut the old lines of communication to the Far East. Recent investigation has shown that such is not the case. Richard Grenville | Military Wiki | Fandom

Richard Grenville, portrait in Heroologia AnglicaLondon,inscribed: Rihardus Grenvilus Neptuni proles qui magni Martis alumnus Grenvilius patrias sanguine tinxit aquas "Richard Grenville, a scion of Neptune, nourished by Mars, He took part in the early English attempts to settle the New World, and also participated in the fight against the Spanish Armada. He died in at the Battle of Florescharacteristically fighting against overwhelming odds, and refusing to surrender his ship to the far more numerous Spanish. Richard Grenville was the eldest son and heir of Sir Roger Grenville d. Grenville's Big Chief Elizabeth: How Englands Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World is believed to have been at Bideford. His father who had pre-deceased his own father Sir Richard Grenville c. At age 17 Grenville began law studies at the Inner Temple. On 19 Novemberaged 20, he was in an affray in the Strand, London, in which he ran through with his sword Robert Bannister and left him to die. In Grenville married Mary St Leger c. In pursuit of his military career, Grenville fought against the Turks in Hungary in Inhe arrived in Ireland with Sir Warham St. Leger c. These had been mortgaged [ Clarification needed ]. They overcame the English defence with pickaxes and killed nearly the entire garrison. The three surviving English soldiers were hanged the next day by the Irish. Fitzmaurice threatened the imminent arrival of Spanish forces. Having robbed the citizens of Cork, he boasted that he could also take the artillery of the city of Youghal. In Junesoon 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. His forces put local English farmers to the sword. As Cork ran low on provisions, the people of Youghal expected an attack at any minute. The rebellion continued, but Grenville remained in England. Grenville sided with the Earl of Arundel and the Duke of Norfolk in against the Queen's secretary. Mayne was martyred as a result. During this period Grenville played a major role in the transformation of the small fishing port of Bideford in north Devon into what became a significant trading port with the new American colonies, later specialising in tobacco importation. A Charter had been granted to his ancestor Richard Grenville increating the Town's first Council. In he created the Port of Bideford. Grenville was never elected as Mayor of Bideford, preferring instead to support John Salterne in that role, but he was Lord of the Manor, a title held by the Grenvilles since and finally ceded by his descendants in to the Town Council he established. He was again elected as MP for Cornwall in sitting until Following a period of supporting Sir Walter Raleigh's venture in America see below he returned to Munster to arrange the estate granted him under the plantation of Big Chief Elizabeth: How Englands Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World province. His renewed efforts beginning in yielded little success, and Grenville returned to England late in In Grenville submitted a proposal to the Privy Council to take a single ship to plunder Spanish treasure ships in South America and from there to sail across the 'South Sea' i. Pacific Ocean in hope of finding a short cut to the Spice Islands. He was refused on the grounds that England was still in diplomatic relations with Spain. Grenville's plan was eventually executed by Sir Francis Drake when he circumnavigated the world in InGrenville was admiral of the seven- strong fleet that brought English settlers to establish a military colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of modern North Carolina in North America. He was heavily criticised by Ralph Lanegeneral of the expedition, who referred to Grenville's "intolerable pride and unsatiable ambition". Lane's remark was prompted by a bitter legal feud he then had with Grenville. On his return, Grenville captured a Spanish ship, the 'Santa Maria de Vincenze', which he later brought to Bideford to be converted into the 'Galleon Dudley'. The cannons from that Spanish ship are thought to be those erroneously labelled ' Armada cannons' in Bideford's Victoria Park. In Grenville returned to Roanoke to find that the surviving colonists had departed with Drake. Grenville left 15 of his own men to defend Raleigh's New World territory. During his return voyage to England, Grenville raided various towns in the Azores Islands. At about this time, a description was given of his behaviour while dining with Spanish captains: "He would carouse three or four glasses of wine, and in a bravery take the Big Chief Elizabeth: How Englands Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World between his teeth and crash them in pieces and swallow them down, so that often the blood ran out of his mouth without any harm at all unto him". In he was asked by the Privy Council to organize the defences of Devon and Cornwall in preparation for the expected attack by the Spanish Armada the following year. InGrenville equipped seven ships at Bideford with supplies and more colonists for Raleigh's 'Planters' Colony settled at Roanoke the previous year. However, a stay of shipping due to the impending arrival of the Spanish Armada meant that the fleet did not sail. Grenville led five of these ships to Plymouth to join the English defences and returned to Bideford where he provisioned the remaining two ships for Roanoke, a voyage that later turned back after being raided by the French. Later that year, Grenville was commissioned to keep watch at sea on the western approaches to the Bristol Channel in case of the return of the Spanish Armada. He was charged with maintaining a squadron Big Chief Elizabeth: How Englands Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World the Azores to waylay the return to Spain of the South American Spanish treasure fleets. He took command of Revengea galleon considered to be a masterpiece of naval construction. Howard retreated to safety, but Grenville faced the 53 enemy ships alone, leading his single ship in what amounted to a suicide mission, stating that he "utterly refused to turn from the enimie According to Raleigh's account, Grenville and his soldiers fought for hour after hour:. The fight was later romanticized by the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson in his work The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet : " Out-gunned, out-fought, and out-numbered fifty-three to one ", [7] Grenville was said to have wished to blow up his ship rather than give up the fight, as Tennyson wrote: Big Chief Elizabeth: How Englands Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World " Sink me the ship, Master Gunner! Fall into the hands of God, not into the hands of Spain! Grenville's crew however refused to obey these suicidal orders and his officers surrendered what was left of their vessel to the Spanish, on a promise of Big Chief Elizabeth: How Englands Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World treatment. Grenville died of his wounds several days later, screaming that his men were "traitors and dogs", [8] but the Spanish were not to enjoy their success, nor would Grenville's men survive their deliverance. The Spanish fleet was caught by a cyclone soon after and during a week-long storm Revenge and fifteen Spanish warships and merchant vessels were lost. She outlived her husband and died aged about 80 on 9 November and was buried at St Mary's Church, Bideford. The family initially lived at Buckland Abbey before moving to a newly built house at Bideford. They had 4 sons, including Bernard Grenville. Sign In Don't have an account? National Portrait Gallery, London. Contents [ show ]. Main article: Roanoke Colony. Main article: Battle of Flores Royal Berkshire History. Nash Ford Publishing. Retrieved 15 November History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 31 May Categories :. Cancel Save. Kingdom of England. Royal Navy. Son Bernard Grenville. Custos Rotulorum of Cornwall — This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia view authors. Guardian review: Big Chief Elizabeth by Giles Milton | Books | The Guardian

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When he investigates further, Edward finds himself caught up in a Byzantine riddle to which there is no obvious answer. Wodehouse with every page permeated by the pungent odour of cheese. A tribe of Native Americans had made her their weroanza—a word that meant "big chief". The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favorite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought back a captive, Manteo, who caused a sensation in Elizabethan London. InManteo was returned to his homeland as Lord and Governor, with more than one hundred English men, women, and children, to establish the settlement of Roanoke, Virginia. But ina supply ship arrived at the colony to discover that the settlers had vanished. For almost twenty years the fate of Ralegh's colonists was to remain a mystery. 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