Sir Richard Grenville: The Turbulent Life and Career of the Hero of the Little "Revenge" |
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... FIGHT OF THE " REVENGE " " And the sun went down , and the stars came out far over the summer sea , But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty - three . Ship after ship , the whole night long , their high - built ...
... FIGHT OF THE " REVENGE " " And the sun went down , and the stars came out far over the summer sea , But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty - three . Ship after ship , the whole night long , their high - built ...
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... fight is as follows : " In the yeare 1591 , was that Memorable Fight , of an English Ship called the Reuenge , under the Command of Sir Richard Greenvill ; Memorable ( I say ) even beyond credit , and to the Height of some Heroicall ...
... fight is as follows : " In the yeare 1591 , was that Memorable Fight , of an English Ship called the Reuenge , under the Command of Sir Richard Greenvill ; Memorable ( I say ) even beyond credit , and to the Height of some Heroicall ...
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... fight . Suggested by Tennyson's poem , which had then just been published , but Lendall also made use of the accounts by Raleigh , Linschoten , and Monson . STEVENSON , ROBERT LOUIS : Virginibus Puerisque . ( 1881. ) " The English ...
... fight . Suggested by Tennyson's poem , which had then just been published , but Lendall also made use of the accounts by Raleigh , Linschoten , and Monson . STEVENSON , ROBERT LOUIS : Virginibus Puerisque . ( 1881. ) " The English ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 19 |
THE SHERIFF OF CORK | 49 |
THE GERALDINES | 57 |
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